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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.
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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He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon
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I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.
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I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.
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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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I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture.
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Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.
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I'm not a slash-and-burn kind, and I'm also not a posterity kind. They just kind of exist on my hard drive. It's like walking down the street - what you leave behind is still there, even if you never go back and revisit it.
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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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I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.
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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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Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.
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Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.
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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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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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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.
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He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.
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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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My name is Salmon, like the fish first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
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