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Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
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I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to.
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He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.
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Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
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What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.
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Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.
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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 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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The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak of a chill in the air. The mates of the deceased wake from dreams and see a figure standing at the end of thier bed, or in a doorway, or boarding, phantomlike, a city bus.
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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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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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I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
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