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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
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Madison
Wisconsin
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It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway.
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There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.
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Do you miss Susie? Because it was dark, because Ruth was facing away from her,because Ruth was almost a stranger, Lindsey said what she felt. More than anyone will ever know.
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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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The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak of a chill in the air. The mates of the deceased wake from dreams and see a figure standing at the end of thier bed, or in a doorway, or boarding, phantomlike, a city bus.
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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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I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 p.m.
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The living deserve attention, too
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As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life
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I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
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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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As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I had a choice, and it was not to divide my family in my heart.
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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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In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual', I thought it was all crap.
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He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway
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I left my mark on that man.
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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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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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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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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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