No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

Alice Sebold

Mots clés determination

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Kuinka tehdään täydellinen murha" oli taivaassa vanha leikki. Minä valitsin aina aseeksi jääpuikon: se sulaa olemattomiin.

Alice Sebold

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I wasn't lost, or frozen, or gone... I was alive; I was alive in my own perfect world.

Alice Sebold

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How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?

Alice Sebold

Mots clés love secret

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By the time I was eighteen, she had sat me down and detailed her alcoholism, its onset and aftermath. She believed that by sharing such things I might be able to avoid them or, if need be, recognize them when they occurred. By talking about them to her children, she was also acknowledging that they were real and that they had an effect on us too, that things like this shaped a family, not just the person they happened to.

Alice Sebold

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Pero esperaba con paciencia. Ya no creía en el poder de la palabra. Nunca salvaba nada. A los setenta años había acabado creyendo únicamente en el tiempo.

Alice Sebold

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If you stop asking why you were killed instead of someone else, stop investigating the vacuum left by your loss, stop wondering what everyone left on Earth is feeling, you can be free. Simply put, you have to give up on Earth.

Alice Sebold

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My father worked behind closed doors inside the house, had a huge ancient Latin dictionary on a wrought-iron stand, spoke Spanish on the phone, and drank sherry and ate raw meat, in the form of chorizo, at five o'clock. Until the day in the yard with my playmate I thought this was what fathers did. Then I began to catalog and notice. They mowed lawns. They drank beer. They played in the yard with their kids, walked around the block with their wives, piled into campers, and, when they went out, wore joke ties or polo shirts, not Phi Beta Kappa keys and tailored vests.

Alice Sebold

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How can I be expected to be trapped for the rest of my life by a man frozen in time?

Alice Sebold

Mots clés lovely-bones

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But I had made contact with a different planet from the one my parents or sister lived on. It was a planet where an act of violence changed your life.

Alice Sebold

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