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I wish you all a long and happy life

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Happy
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Long
Life

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Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?
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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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People grow up by living.
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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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The moon is whole all the time, but we can’t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest is hiding just out of view, but there’s only one moon, so we follow it in the sky. We plan our lives based on its rhythms and tides.
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Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.
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Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions
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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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Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an hour count sometimes I'm just happy to string a few words together. I do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get anything done.
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And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
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He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.
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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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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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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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She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths and hold them. Try to stay still for longer and longer periods of time. Make yourself small and like a stone. Curl the edges of yourself up and fold them under where no one can see. ~pg 29, Susie's sister Lindsey dealing with grief.
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I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever.
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I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
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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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How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?
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Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
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