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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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Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.
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Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.
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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 live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand
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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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What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.
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Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions
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I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.
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I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. -Susie Salmon
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He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon
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Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.
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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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In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual', I thought it was all crap.
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And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
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Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.
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Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before
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I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
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Books and novels in particular that grapple with quite a few things are difficult to explain, so I think that first line can come in a substitute for trying to form a longer sense of what the book is about.
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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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I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined.
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