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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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The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience.
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How to Commit the Perfect Murder was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.
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These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals and her poems. 'Inside, inside,' she would whisper quietly to herself when she felt the urge to tell.
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Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.
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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.
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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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Every day a question mark.
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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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The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left they always came back.
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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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Your first kiss is destiny knocking.
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Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?
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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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Well, it's my voice, so it's more accessible that way, and there are also all sorts of things like plot and timelines that are already known entities, so for me, it's very different from writing fiction.
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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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He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.
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Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.
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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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Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn’t mean the weaker one doesn’t love the stronger.
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I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
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