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Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Stills
Still
Comfort
Growth
Heaven
Living

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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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Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go
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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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I fell in love with you again While you were away - Jack Salmon
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Please don't let Daddy die Susie, he whispered. I need him.
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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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Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.
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At fourteen, my sister sailed away from me into a place I’d never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows.
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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
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Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
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