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I was like I was in science class: I was curious.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
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Madison
Wisconsin
Curious
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Science
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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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There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.
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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.
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Stones and bones snow and frost seeds and beans and polliwogs. Paths and twigs, assorted kisses, We all know who Daddy misses! His two little frogs of girls, that’s who. They know where they are, do you, do you?
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I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been, and I did not want to leave him
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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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Every day a question mark.
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I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.
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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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And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
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But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with the sort of helplessness I had not felt in death — the helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human — feeling as you went, groping in corners and opening your arms to light - all of it part of navigating the unknown.
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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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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 did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.
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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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I wish you all a long and happy life
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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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He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.
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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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