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As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Kiss
Kissing
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Sides
Life

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I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.
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She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.
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All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.
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There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.
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I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 p.m.
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I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.
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I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
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Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
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A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon
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She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she seemed to deliberate over the smallest movement of her body.
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Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.
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The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak of a chill in the air. The mates of the deceased wake from dreams and see a figure standing at the end of thier bed, or in a doorway, or boarding, phantomlike, a city bus.
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Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?
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I don't do much public speaking. I did a lot of stuff for Bones, and then ended up having said yes to a lot of things that kept me on the road for a while for that, but then I pretty much stopped. I'm touring for this book, but when the tour is done, that'll be the end of it.
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He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway
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I watched my brother and my father. The truth was very different from what we learned in school. The truth was the line between the living and the dead could be, it seemed, murky and blurred.
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Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun it cannot be contained.
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She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.
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The sun came through the branches of the tree above her, and Ruth looked up past them. I think she listens, she said, too softly to be heard.
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The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her she had noted in her journal: booze affects material as it does people.
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