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Alice Sebold Quote: “When the dead are done with the living,” Franny said to me, “the living can go on to other things.”

151. “When the dead are done with the living,” Franny said to me, “the living can go on to other things.”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “Soon she noted that teachers in subjects besides gym didn’t report her if she cut. They were happy not to have her there: her intelligence made her a problem. It demanded attention and rushed their lesson plans forward.”

152. “Soon she noted that teachers in subjects besides gym didn’t report her if she cut. They were happy not to have her there: her intelligence made her a problem. It demanded attention and rushed their lesson plans forward.”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “I had begun to chase my husband as I had once chased my mother, toe to toe, a shadow girl trying to be what I thought they wanted me to be. I.”

153. “I had begun to chase my husband as I had once chased my mother, toe to toe, a shadow girl trying to be what I thought they wanted me to be. I.”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “Give that love to the living.”

154. “Give that love to the living.”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was an immaculate anonymity.”

155. “Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was an immaculate anonymity.”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “The air inside the station wagon was cold and fragile. I could see the moist air when he exhaled, and this made me want to palpate my own stony lungs.”

156. “The air inside the station wagon was cold and fragile. I could see the moist air when he exhaled, and this made me want to palpate my own stony lungs.”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “People grow up by living. I want to live.”

157. “People grow up by living. I want to live.”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “I had taken this time to fall in love instead – inn love with the sort of helplessness I had not felt inn death – the helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human – feeling as you went, groping in corners and opening your arms to light – all of it part of nagivating the unknown.”

158. “I had taken this time to fall in love instead – inn love with the sort of helplessness I had not felt inn death – the helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human – feeling as you went, groping in corners and opening your arms to light – all of it part of nagivating the unknown.”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “When people asked Hal when he was going to grow up, he said, “Never.”

159. “When people asked Hal when he was going to grow up, he said, “Never.”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “He walked in the room like a ghost and like a ghost slipped in between the sheets, barely creasing them. He was not unkind in the ways that the television and newspapers were full of. His cruelty was in his absence. Even when he came and sat at her dinner table and ate her food, he was not there.”

160. “He walked in the room like a ghost and like a ghost slipped in between the sheets, barely creasing them. He was not unkind in the ways that the television and newspapers were full of. His cruelty was in his absence. Even when he came and sat at her dinner table and ate her food, he was not there.”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “She held on to two sides of an hourglass and wondered how this could be possible. The time she’d had alone had been gravitationally circumscribed by when her attachments would pull her back. And they had pulled now – doublefisted.”

161. “She held on to two sides of an hourglass and wondered how this could be possible. The time she’d had alone had been gravitationally circumscribed by when her attachments would pull her back. And they had pulled now – doublefisted.”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “News slipped out and the world didn’t explode and eventually I could count on passing out. I had a headache in the morning and I always threw up, but Jamie, and everyone, it seemed, liked me when I was drunk. The added bonus: I often didn’t remember much.”

162. “News slipped out and the world didn’t explode and eventually I could count on passing out. I had a headache in the morning and I always threw up, but Jamie, and everyone, it seemed, liked me when I was drunk. The added bonus: I often didn’t remember much.”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “The end came anyway.”

163. “The end came anyway.”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “Buckley kept the shoe on his dresser, until one day it wasn’t there anymore and no amount of looking for it could turn it up.”

164. “Buckley kept the shoe on his dresser, until one day it wasn’t there anymore and no amount of looking for it could turn it up.”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “What I’d been missing was a wanderlust that came from letting go?”

165. “What I’d been missing was a wanderlust that came from letting go?”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily.”

166. “When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily.”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “I felt like observing my way out of there, but I didn’t.”

167. “I felt like observing my way out of there, but I didn’t.”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “Sometimes cats fall ten flights out of the windows of highrises and land on their feet. You only believe it because you’ve seen it in print.”

168. “Sometimes cats fall ten flights out of the windows of highrises and land on their feet. You only believe it because you’ve seen it in print.”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “Confucius-says.”

169. “Confucius-says.”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “That was the line my father said to my mother: “Nothing is ever certain.”

170. “That was the line my father said to my mother: “Nothing is ever certain.”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “I wish now that I had known this was weird.”

171. “I wish now that I had known this was weird.”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “No one knew how he continued to do what he did, while simultaneously they wanted him to shut all signs of his grief away, place it in a file somewhere and tuck it in a drawer that no one would be asked to open again.”

172. “No one knew how he continued to do what he did, while simultaneously they wanted him to shut all signs of his grief away, place it in a file somewhere and tuck it in a drawer that no one would be asked to open again.”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “Like snowflakes,′ Franny said,’none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before.”

173. “Like snowflakes,′ Franny said,’none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before.”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “I was raised by a solitary woman to be a solitary child, and that was, I now saw, what I had hopelessly become.”

174. “I was raised by a solitary woman to be a solitary child, and that was, I now saw, what I had hopelessly become.”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors.”

175. “These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors.”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “So much in life is about almosts, not quites.”

176. “So much in life is about almosts, not quites.”

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quote: “Like someone who has survived a gun-shot, the wound had been closing, closing – braiding into a scar for eight long years.”

177. “Like someone who has survived a gun-shot, the wound had been closing, closing – braiding into a scar for eight long years.”

— Alice Sebold

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