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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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A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon
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I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
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I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
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When the music stopped, it could have been forever since we'd begun. My grandfather took a step back, and the light grew yellow at his back. 'I'm going,' he said. 'Where?' I asked. 'Don't worry, sweetheart. You're so close.' He turned and walked away, disappearing rapidly into spots and dust. Infinity.
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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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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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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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I think that if you're somebody who's a control freak, the process would make you crazy, but I'm kind of a process freak, so I'm excited to see what he does with it. I know it's not going to be my book, so just starting with that knowledge frees me from having to get all freaked out about it.
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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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I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.
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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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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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She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.
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Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.
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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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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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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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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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He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.
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