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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
Come
Sometimes
Even
Inspiring
Never
Destiny
Dreams
Knew
True
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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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To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.
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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.
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Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.
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I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. -Susie Salmon
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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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She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she seemed to deliberate over the smallest movement of her body.
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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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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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Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun it cannot be contained.
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Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.
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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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Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.
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I'm fine with whatever comes my way, and whatever doesn't come my way I'm fine with too. I have a very laissez-faire attitude with the whole thing.
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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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And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
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But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with the sort of helplessness I had not felt in death — the helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human — feeling as you went, groping in corners and opening your arms to light - all of it part of navigating the unknown.
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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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I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.
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