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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
Alice Sebold
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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
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Madison
Wisconsin
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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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She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.
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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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So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything.
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Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
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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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I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.
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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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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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After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.
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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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Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.
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Every day a question mark.
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