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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
True
Dream
Come
Sometimes
Even
Inspiring
Never
Destiny
Dreams
Knew

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What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.
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The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak of a chill in the air. The mates of the deceased wake from dreams and see a figure standing at the end of thier bed, or in a doorway, or boarding, phantomlike, a city bus.
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He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.
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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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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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He was beginning to understand: You were treated special and, later, something horrible would be told to you.
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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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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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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.
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She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.
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I fell in love with you again While you were away - Jack Salmon
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I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
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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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There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.
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Hold still, my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with and set the clipper ship free on its blue putty sea. And I would wait for him, recognizing the tension of that moment when the world in the bottle depended, solely, on me.
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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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I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand
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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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Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had been a way, by touching, to borrow from the stronger one's strength.
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People grow up by living.
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