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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
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Madison
Wisconsin
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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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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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Your first kiss is destiny knocking.
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I think that if you're somebody who's a control freak, the process would make you crazy, but I'm kind of a process freak, so I'm excited to see what he does with it. I know it's not going to be my book, so just starting with that knowledge frees me from having to get all freaked out about it.
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Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.
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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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The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.
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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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Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.
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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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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 wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.
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Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
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One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.
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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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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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I mean, if I went into my closet, I could find a previous draft and try to figure that out, but it takes a long time for me to find the voice to tell a story in. I was working from other points of view for a couple years there.
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Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions
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I don't do much public speaking. I did a lot of stuff for Bones, and then ended up having said yes to a lot of things that kept me on the road for a while for that, but then I pretty much stopped. I'm touring for this book, but when the tour is done, that'll be the end of it.
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And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
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