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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
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Supposed
Keep
Back
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When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things, Franny said. What about the dead? I asked. Where do we go?
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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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One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.
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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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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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Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn’t mean the weaker one doesn’t love the stronger.
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People grow up by living.
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These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals and her poems. 'Inside, inside,' she would whisper quietly to herself when she felt the urge to tell.
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As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life
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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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Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?
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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.
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I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
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Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.
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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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I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.
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I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand
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She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she seemed to deliberate over the smallest movement of her body.
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But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone. ~pg 254
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Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.
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