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I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
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Never
Weighing
Input
Shy
Seriously
Listening

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But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone. ~pg 254
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He was beginning to understand: You were treated special and, later, something horrible would be told to you.
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I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
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At fourteen, my sister sailed away from me into a place I’d never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows.
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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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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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I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog. I missed him in a way I hadn't yet let myself miss my mother and father, my sister and brother. That way of missing would mean that I had accepted that I would never be with them again it might sound silly but I didn't believe it, would not believe it.
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Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
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I think that if you're somebody who's a control freak, the process would make you crazy, but I'm kind of a process freak, so I'm excited to see what he does with it. I know it's not going to be my book, so just starting with that knowledge frees me from having to get all freaked out about it.
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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'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.
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There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.
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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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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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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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I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
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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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The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.
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