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There was one thing my murderer didn't understand he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.
Alice Sebold
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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
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Madison
Wisconsin
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I would do exactly what you are doing: I would talk to everyone I needed to, I would not tell too many people his name. When I was sure, she said, I would find a quiet way, and I would kill him.
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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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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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Well, it's my voice, so it's more accessible that way, and there are also all sorts of things like plot and timelines that are already known entities, so for me, it's very different from writing fiction.
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I forgive you, I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.
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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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Your first kiss is destiny knocking.
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I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.
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He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things 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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The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience.
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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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The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.
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Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to.
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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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He was beginning to understand: You were treated special and, later, something horrible would be told to you.
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I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog. I missed him in a way I hadn't yet let myself miss my mother and father, my sister and brother. That way of missing would mean that I had accepted that I would never be with them again it might sound silly but I didn't believe it, would not believe it.
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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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I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
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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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