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I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Fun
Freedom
Family
Wanted
Morons
Moron
Seemed
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I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.
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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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But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room where the green chair was still warm from his body, I blew that lonely, flickering candle out
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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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He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.
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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined.
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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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I'm fine with whatever comes my way, and whatever doesn't come my way I'm fine with too. I have a very laissez-faire attitude with the whole thing.
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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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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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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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It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway.
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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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Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?
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I was like I was in science class: I was curious.
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The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left they always came back.
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Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions
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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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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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