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In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual', I thought it was all crap.

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Anything
Railed
Crap
Spiritual
Thought

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There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.
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And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
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Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?
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For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that for me heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.
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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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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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Stones and bones snow and frost seeds and beans and polliwogs. Paths and twigs, assorted kisses, We all know who Daddy misses! His two little frogs of girls, that’s who. They know where they are, do you, do you?
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All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.
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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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The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience.
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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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Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn’t mean the weaker one doesn’t love the stronger.
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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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Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go
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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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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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The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.
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