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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.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
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As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag.
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I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
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I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who has survived a gut-shot, the wound had been closing, closing - braiding into a scar for eight long years.
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In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual', I thought it was all crap.
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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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To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.
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And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
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Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.
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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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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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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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As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life
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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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Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?
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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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Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.
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But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room where the green chair was still warm from his body, I blew that lonely, flickering candle out
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