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You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going.
Alice Sebold
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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
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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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Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.
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I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined.
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Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family will not follow. A language they do not speak.
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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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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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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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As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life
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