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Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
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Invitation
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In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual', I thought it was all crap.
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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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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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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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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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He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon
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I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.
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You look invincible,' my mother said one night. I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped in my thin gown, and said: I am.
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There was one thing my murderer didn't understand he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.
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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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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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I left my mark on that man.
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Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.
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but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.
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If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.
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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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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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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 have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
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Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.
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