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To transform experience and t...

To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.

Alice Sebold 152 quotes

We have this desire for every...

We have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things. So it made sense to me to reflect the human condition that not every action has an explanation. We act, and then later maybe come to an understanding about it, or maybe not.

Alice Sebold 152 quotes

Learn a language of another c...

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.

Alice Sebold 152 quotes

You could not be filled with ...

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.

Alice Sebold 152 quotes

Since then I've always though...

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 152 quotes

I was trying to prove to them...

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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"When the dead are done with ...

"When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?"

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She liked to imagine that whe...

She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.

Alice Sebold 152 quotes

Each time I told my story, I ...

Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. 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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Sometimes Holly seemed like s...

Sometimes Holly seemed like she wasn't paying attention, and other times she was gone when I went looking for her. That was when she went to a part of heaven we didn't share. I missed her then, but it was and odd sort of missing because by then I knew the meaning of forever. I could not have what I wanted most: Mr. Harvey dead and me living. Heaven wasn't perfect. But I came to believe that if I watched closely, and desired, I might change the lives of those I loved on Earth.

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His love for my mother wasn't...

His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother for everything -- for her brokenness and her fleeing, for her being there right then in that moment before the sun rose and the hospital staff came in. It was about touching that hair with the side of his fingertip, and knowing yet plumbing fearlessly the depths of her ocean eyes.

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The damage can fester under l...

The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.

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I wanted to be a novelist for...

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

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I have always felt extremely ...

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.

Alice Sebold 152 quotes

I wanted to be the moron of t...

I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.

Alice Sebold 152 quotes

To me, the idea of heaven wou...

To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual understanding of why you want those things.

Alice Sebold 152 quotes

I always had that sense of be...

I always had that sense of being censored for the things that I thought. Why is it wrong to embroider your pants, or paint with acrylics on your clothing? Why is that weird? Isn't it weirder to want to be like everyone else?

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The relationship with the wor...

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.

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In my 20s, I railed against a...

In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual'; I thought it was all crap.

Alice Sebold 152 quotes

I have never been shy about l...

I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.

Alice Sebold 152 quotes

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