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Alice Sebold
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“You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”
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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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“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.”
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“Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
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“Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.”
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“Our only kiss was like an accident — a beautiful gasoline rainbow.”
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“Every day a question mark.”
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“One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.”
Alice Sebold, U.S. writer
(1963)