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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
Transform
Narrative
Beauty
Language
Experience
Beautiful
Thought
Even
Brokenness

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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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As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life
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Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before
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It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.
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And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
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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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Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.
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I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been, and I did not want to leave him
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Hold still, my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with and set the clipper ship free on its blue putty sea. And I would wait for him, recognizing the tension of that moment when the world in the bottle depended, solely, on me.
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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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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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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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Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?
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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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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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Every day a question mark.
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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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Your first kiss is destiny knocking.
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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.
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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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