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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
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Madison
Wisconsin
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The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.
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Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
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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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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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He was beginning to understand: You were treated special and, later, something horrible would be told to you.
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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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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.
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I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. 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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The sun came through the branches of the tree above her, and Ruth looked up past them. I think she listens, she said, too softly to be heard.
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Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.
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What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.
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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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What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child
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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 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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You save yourself or you remain unsaved.
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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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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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The earth has a mouth?” Buckley asked. A big round mouth but with no lips,” my father said. Jack,” my mother said, laughing, “stop it. Do you know I caught him outside growling at the snapdragons?
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