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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
Growth
Heaven
Living
Stills
Still
Comfort

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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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There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closures, the ghostly fingering, practice and practice and then, incredibly, sound and melody and warmth.
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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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You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.
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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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In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In Remember Me Like This, Johnston presents an incisive dismantling of an all-too-comforting fallacy: that in being found we are no longer lost.
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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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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 stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
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I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.
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People grow up by 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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I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.
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Every day a question mark.
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Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?
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Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.
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The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.
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After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.
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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 have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.
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