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I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Tell
Would
Like
Bones
Safe
Forever

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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, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.
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Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?
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When the music stopped, it could have been forever since we'd begun. My grandfather took a step back, and the light grew yellow at his back. 'I'm going,' he said. 'Where?' I asked. 'Don't worry, sweetheart. You're so close.' He turned and walked away, disappearing rapidly into spots and dust. Infinity.
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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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You save yourself or you remain unsaved.
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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.
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Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn’t mean the weaker one doesn’t love the stronger.
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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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Every day a question mark.
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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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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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There was one thing my murderer didn't understand he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.
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