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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Inspiring
Even
Destiny
Never
Dreams
Knew
True
Dream
Come
Sometimes

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She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths and hold them. Try to stay still for longer and longer periods of time. Make yourself small and like a stone. Curl the edges of yourself up and fold them under where no one can see. ~pg 29, Susie's sister Lindsey dealing with grief.
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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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Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family will not follow. A language they do not speak.
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Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.
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She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.
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Please don't let Daddy die Susie, he whispered. I need him.
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Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.
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As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life
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The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her she had noted in her journal: booze affects material as it does people.
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Books and novels in particular that grapple with quite a few things are difficult to explain, so I think that first line can come in a substitute for trying to form a longer sense of what the book is about.
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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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I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
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The living deserve attention, too
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Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an hour count sometimes I'm just happy to string a few words together. I do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get anything done.
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I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.
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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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What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.
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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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So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything.
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Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to.
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