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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Question
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Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go
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My name is Salmon, like the fish first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
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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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For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that for me heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.
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Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?
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If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.
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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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Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.
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You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.
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In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In Remember Me Like This, Johnston presents an incisive dismantling of an all-too-comforting fallacy: that in being found we are no longer lost.
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Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
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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 watched my brother and my father. The truth was very different from what we learned in school. The truth was the line between the living and the dead could be, it seemed, murky and blurred.
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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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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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At the tips of the feathers there is air and at their base: blood. I hold up bones I wish like broken glass they could court light....still I try to place these pieces back together, to set them firm, to make murdered girls live again.
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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 have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
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I fell in love with you again While you were away - Jack Salmon
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I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.
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