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In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In Remember Me Like This, Johnston presents an incisive dismantling of an all-too-comforting fallacy: that in being found we are no longer lost.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
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Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.
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Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.
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The earth has a mouth?” Buckley asked. A big round mouth but with no lips,” my father said. Jack,” my mother said, laughing, “stop it. Do you know I caught him outside growling at the snapdragons?
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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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I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.
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If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee.
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I watched my brother and my father. The truth was very different from what we learned in school. The truth was the line between the living and the dead could be, it seemed, murky and blurred.
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You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.
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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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Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an hour count sometimes I'm just happy to string a few words together. I do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get anything done.
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I fell in love with you again While you were away - Jack Salmon
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Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.
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The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left they always came back.
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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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There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.
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I think that if you're somebody who's a control freak, the process would make you crazy, but I'm kind of a process freak, so I'm excited to see what he does with it. I know it's not going to be my book, so just starting with that knowledge frees me from having to get all freaked out about it.
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After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.
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But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone. ~pg 254
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Nothing is ever certain.
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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun it cannot be contained.
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