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Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
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She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she seemed to deliberate over the smallest movement of her body.
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I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 p.m.
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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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Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?
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I left my mark on that man.
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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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Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.
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If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.
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I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. -Susie Salmon
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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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I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
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As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life
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For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that for me heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.
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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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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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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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But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with the sort of helplessness I had not felt in death — the helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human — feeling as you went, groping in corners and opening your arms to light - all of it part of navigating the unknown.
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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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Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
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I was like I was in science class: I was curious.
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