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There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Bullshit
Wasn
Heaven
Life

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After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.
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If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.
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but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.
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Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: She’s never coming home. A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone who had ever known me had accepted. But he needed to say it, and she needed to hear him say it.
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I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss it away, but he didn't want to look at me anymore, either.
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There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.
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Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.
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But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room where the green chair was still warm from his body, I blew that lonely, flickering candle out
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How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?
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I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
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As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag.
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I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.
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I forgive you, I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.
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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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At fourteen, my sister sailed away from me into a place I’d never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows.
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I was like I was in science class: I was curious.
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Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go
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My name is Salmon, like the fish first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
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Your first kiss is destiny knocking.
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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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