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

Alice Sebold

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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.

Alice Sebold


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When the music stopped, it could have been forever since we'd begun. My grandfather took a step back, and the light grew yellow at his back.
'I'm going,' he said.
'Where?' I asked.
'Don't worry, sweetheart. You're so close.'
He turned and walked away, disappearing rapidly into spots and dust. Infinity.

Alice Sebold


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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?

Alice Sebold


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

Alice Sebold

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I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand

Alice Sebold


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This is just a temporary hell, not a permanent one

Alice Sebold


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

Alice Sebold

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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.

Alice Sebold

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I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.

Alice Sebold

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