Alice Sebold - Father Quotes

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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 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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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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A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.'

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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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