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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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Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
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She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.
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Well, it's my voice, so it's more accessible that way, and there are also all sorts of things like plot and timelines that are already known entities, so for me, it's very different from writing fiction.
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The living deserve attention, too
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In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual', I thought it was all crap.
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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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I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
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Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
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Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?
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I fell in love with you again While you were away - Jack Salmon
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I was like I was in science class: I was curious.
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I would do exactly what you are doing: I would talk to everyone I needed to, I would not tell too many people his name. When I was sure, she said, I would find a quiet way, and I would kill him.
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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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To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.
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The earth has a mouth?” Buckley asked. A big round mouth but with no lips,” my father said. Jack,” my mother said, laughing, “stop it. Do you know I caught him outside growling at the snapdragons?
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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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The moon is whole all the time, but we can’t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest is hiding just out of view, but there’s only one moon, so we follow it in the sky. We plan our lives based on its rhythms and tides.
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She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.
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For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that for me heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.
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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.
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