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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
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Madison
Wisconsin
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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual', I thought it was all crap.
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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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When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world worked and about how safe I was.
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Stones and bones snow and frost seeds and beans and polliwogs. Paths and twigs, assorted kisses, We all know who Daddy misses! His two little frogs of girls, that’s who. They know where they are, do you, do you?
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Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.
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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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Your first kiss is destiny knocking.
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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'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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How to Commit the Perfect Murder was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.
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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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Nothing is ever certain.
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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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Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.
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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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Well, it's my voice, so it's more accessible that way, and there are also all sorts of things like plot and timelines that are already known entities, so for me, it's very different from writing fiction.
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I fell in love with you again While you were away - Jack Salmon
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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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Do you miss Susie? Because it was dark, because Ruth was facing away from her,because Ruth was almost a stranger, Lindsey said what she felt. More than anyone will ever know.
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