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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
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Madison
Wisconsin
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More quotes by Alice Sebold
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.
Alice Sebold
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.
Alice Sebold
Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.
Alice Sebold
I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
Alice Sebold
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.
Alice Sebold
How to Commit the Perfect Murder was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.
Alice Sebold
Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.
Alice Sebold
The living deserve attention, too
Alice Sebold
Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: She’s never coming home. A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone who had ever known me had accepted. But he needed to say it, and she needed to hear him say it.
Alice Sebold
In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual', I thought it was all crap.
Alice Sebold
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.
Alice Sebold
When the music stopped, it could have been forever since we'd begun. My grandfather took a step back, and the light grew yellow at his back. 'I'm going,' he said. 'Where?' I asked. 'Don't worry, sweetheart. You're so close.' He turned and walked away, disappearing rapidly into spots and dust. Infinity.
Alice Sebold
Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?
Alice Sebold
To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.
Alice Sebold
Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.
Alice Sebold
Every day a question mark.
Alice Sebold
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.
Alice Sebold
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.
Alice Sebold
I wish you all a long and happy life
Alice Sebold
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.
Alice Sebold