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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
Really
Desire
Understand
Come
Enough

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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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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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He was beginning to understand: You were treated special and, later, something horrible would be told to you.
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As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life
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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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When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things, Franny said. What about the dead? I asked. Where do we go?
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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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I fell in love with you again While you were away - Jack Salmon
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Your first kiss is destiny knocking.
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I was like I was in science class: I was curious.
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He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.
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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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Do you miss Susie? Because it was dark, because Ruth was facing away from her,because Ruth was almost a stranger, Lindsey said what she felt. More than anyone will ever know.
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I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who has survived a gut-shot, the wound had been closing, closing - braiding into a scar for eight long years.
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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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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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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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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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Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.
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I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
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