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Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
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I watched my brother and my father. The truth was very different from what we learned in school. The truth was the line between the living and the dead could be, it seemed, murky and blurred.
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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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I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever.
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She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths and hold them. Try to stay still for longer and longer periods of time. Make yourself small and like a stone. Curl the edges of yourself up and fold them under where no one can see. ~pg 29, Susie's sister Lindsey dealing with grief.
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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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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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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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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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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.
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There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.
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I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
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I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who has survived a gut-shot, the wound had been closing, closing - braiding into a scar for eight long years.
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I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.
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I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
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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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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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Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had been a way, by touching, to borrow from the stronger one's strength.
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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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Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
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but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.
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