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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.
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Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?
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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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What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child
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These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals and her poems. 'Inside, inside,' she would whisper quietly to herself when she felt the urge to tell...
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I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever.
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I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
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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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Hey, Ocean Eyes, my father said. Where'd you go on us?
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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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The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an outdoor cafe for a cup of coffee, and look down at her skirt and see the dark traces of spilled vodka or whiskey. 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'.
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No one on the street thought anything of the downtown girl dressed in black who had paused in the middle of midtown foot traffic. In her art student camouflage she could walk the entire length of Manhattan and, if not blend in, be classified and therefore ignored.
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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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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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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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And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
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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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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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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.
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I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been, and I did not want to leave him
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Well, as my dad would say, it means she's out of this shithole.
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Stones and bones; snow and frost; seeds and beans and polliwogs. Paths and twigs, assorted kisses, We all know who Daddy misses! His two little frogs of girls, that's who. They know where they are, do you, do you?
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At fourteen, my sister sailed away from me into a place I'd never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows.
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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.
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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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Alice Sebold
Born:
September 6, 1963
(age 60)
Bio:
Alice Sebold is an American writer. She has published three books: Lucky, The Lovely Bones, and The Almost Moon.
Known for:
The Lovely Bones (2002)
The Almost Moon (2007)
Lucky (1999)
THE LOVELY BONES FILM TIE-IN(978) (2002)
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