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I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
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Madison
Wisconsin
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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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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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I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.
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There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.
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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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You look invincible,' my mother said one night. I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped in my thin gown, and said: I am.
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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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To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.
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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. 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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The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left they always came back.
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I forgive you, I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.
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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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but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.
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