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I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 p.m.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
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Early
Brain
Morning
Dark
Start
Night
Work
Evaporated
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I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined.
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I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. -Susie Salmon
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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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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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