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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
Look
Looks
Going

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Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to.
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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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Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?
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Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.
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I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture.
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Nothing is ever certain.
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Every day a question mark.
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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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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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I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.
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Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: She’s never coming home. A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone who had ever known me had accepted. But he needed to say it, and she needed to hear him say it.
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Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.
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I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog. I missed him in a way I hadn't yet let myself miss my mother and father, my sister and brother. That way of missing would mean that I had accepted that I would never be with them again it might sound silly but I didn't believe it, would not believe it.
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He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon
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Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had been a way, by touching, to borrow from the stronger one's strength.
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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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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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Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.
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I left my mark on that man.
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