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I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Personality
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Kind
Things
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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 dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
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I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.
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And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
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When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things, Franny said. What about the dead? I asked. Where do we go?
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People grow up by living.
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You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going.
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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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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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There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closures, the ghostly fingering, practice and practice and then, incredibly, sound and melody and warmth.
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Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.
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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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To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.
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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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Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?
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A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon
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As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag.
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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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Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.
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I wish you all a long and happy life
Alice Sebold