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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.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
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Books and novels in particular that grapple with quite a few things are difficult to explain, so I think that first line can come in a substitute for trying to form a longer sense of what the book is about.
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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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Every day a question mark.
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Nothing is ever certain.
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At the tips of the feathers there is air and at their base: blood. I hold up bones I wish like broken glass they could court light....still I try to place these pieces back together, to set them firm, to make murdered girls live again.
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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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Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.
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The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her she had noted in her journal: booze affects material as it does people.
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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.
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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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I left my mark on that man.
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She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.
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Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions
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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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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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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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Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
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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 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 would do exactly what you are doing: I would talk to everyone I needed to, I would not tell too many people his name. When I was sure, she said, I would find a quiet way, and I would kill him.
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