Alice Sebold Short Quotes

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Hey, Ocean Eyes, my father said. Where'd you go on us?

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Well, as my dad would say, it means she's out of this shithole.

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I fell in love with you again; While you were away - Jack Salmon

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Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.

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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.

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I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.

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And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.

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Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions

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

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What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.

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Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?

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He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway

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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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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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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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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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Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.

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All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why — really know — it will come.

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As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag.

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Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before

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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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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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Under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.

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Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to.

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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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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 had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.

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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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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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