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To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Beautiful
Thought
Even
Brokenness
Transform
Narrative
Beauty
Language
Experience

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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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As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag.
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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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I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand
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Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go
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Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family will not follow. A language they do not speak.
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People grow up by living.
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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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I fell in love with you again While you were away - Jack Salmon
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Nothing is ever certain.
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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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Books and novels in particular that grapple with quite a few things are difficult to explain, so I think that first line can come in a substitute for trying to form a longer sense of what the book is about.
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What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child
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Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.
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I was like I was in science class: I was curious.
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Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.
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Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: She’s never coming home. A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone who had ever known me had accepted. But he needed to say it, and she needed to hear him say 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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The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her she had noted in her journal: booze affects material as it does people.
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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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