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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
Come
Enough
Really
Desire
Understand

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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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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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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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I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.
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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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I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
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I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever.
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I was like I was in science class: I was curious.
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He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.
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Please don't let Daddy die Susie, he whispered. I need him.
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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. 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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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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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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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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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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Hold still, my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with and set the clipper ship free on its blue putty sea. And I would wait for him, recognizing the tension of that moment when the world in the bottle depended, solely, on me.
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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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The living deserve attention, too
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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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To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.
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