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People grow up by living.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
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Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go
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There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.
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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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My name is Salmon, like the fish first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
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Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.
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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'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.
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How to Commit the Perfect Murder was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.
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Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.
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Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.
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There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.
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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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There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closures, the ghostly fingering, practice and practice and then, incredibly, sound and melody and warmth.
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I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss it away, but he didn't want to look at me anymore, either.
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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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Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.
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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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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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Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
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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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