Alice Sebold quotes - page 3

I wish you all a long and happy life. (Alice Sebold)
People grow up by living. View quote
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Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go. View quote
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Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time. View quote
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Life is a perpetual yesterday for us. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something. View quote
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He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be. View quote
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Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything. (Alice Sebold)
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. View quote
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Every day a question mark. View quote
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The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience. View quote
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I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously. View quote
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I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control. View quote
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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. View quote
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This is just a temporary hell, not a permanent one. View quote
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No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved. (Alice Sebold)
For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that, for me, heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again. View quote
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In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual'; I thought it was all crap. View quote
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I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline. View quote
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