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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.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Desire
Understand
Come
Enough
Really

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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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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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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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Your first kiss is destiny knocking.
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I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture.
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There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.
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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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You save yourself or you remain unsaved.
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He was beginning to understand: You were treated special and, later, something horrible would be told to you.
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I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been, and I did not want to leave him
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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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One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.
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What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.
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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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As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life
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I'm not a slash-and-burn kind, and I'm also not a posterity kind. They just kind of exist on my hard drive. It's like walking down the street - what you leave behind is still there, even if you never go back and revisit it.
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If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee.
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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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She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.
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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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