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title: "12 Wanted Quotes By Alice Sebold"
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> [I wanted to be a novelist for so long.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/i-wanted-to-be-a-novelist-for-so-long/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

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> [I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/i-wanted-to-be-the-moron-of-the-family-because-morons-seemed-to-have/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

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> [You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/you-could-not-be-filled-with-hate-and-be-beautiful-like-any-other/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

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> [He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/he-had-been-my-almost-my-might-have-been-i-was-afraid-of-what-i/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

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> [but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/but-he-also-said-it-because-part-of-him-wanted-more-of-her-this-cold/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

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> [But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/but-also-i-wanted-him-to-go-away-and-leave-me-be-i-was-granted-one/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

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> [It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/it-s-very-weird-to-succeed-at-thirty-nine-years-old-and-realize-that/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

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> [I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/i-was-in-the-air-around-him-i-was-in-the-cold-mornings-he-had-now-i/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

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> [Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/each-time-i-told-my-story-i-lost-a-bit-the-smallest-drop-of-pain-it/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

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> [I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/i-was-the-girl-he-had-chosen-to-kiss-he-wanted-somehow-to-set-me-free/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

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> [Sometimes Holly seemed like she wasn't paying attention, and other times she was gone when I went looking for her. That was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/sometimes-holly-seemed-like-she-wasn-t-paying-attention-and-other/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

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> [It was Buckley, as my father and sister joined the group and listened to Grandma Lynn’s countless toasts, who saw me. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/it-was-buckley-as-my-father-and-sister-joined-the-group-and-listened/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

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## Other authors on Wanted

## More by Alice Sebold

> [Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/now-i-am-in-the-place-i-call-this-wide-wide-heaven-because-it/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

> [I left my mark on that man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/i-left-my-mark-on-that-man/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

> [These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals and her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/these-things-she-felt-were-not-to-be-passed-around-like-disingenuous/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

> [I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/i-don-t-think-ignorance-is-a-way-that-you-gain-distance-on-something/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

> [I was like I was in science class: I was curious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/i-was-like-i-was-in-science-class-i-was-curious/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

> [“There are secret rooms inside us,” I had said to my therapist. “A relatively benign construct,” he said, and so I did not bother…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/there-are-secret-rooms-inside-us-i-had-said-to-my-therapist-a/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

> [“This is just a temporary hell, not a permanent one”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/this-is-just-a-temporary-hell-not-a-permanent-one/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

> [“And a soul would run by a living being, touch them softly on the shoulder or cheek, and continue on its way to heaven.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/and-a-soul-would-run-by-a-living-being-touch-them-softly-on-the/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

> [As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/as-if-in-the-other-side-of-his-kiss-there-could-ve-a-new-life/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

> [“My little brother's greatest fear was that the one person who meant so much to him would go away. He loved Lindsey and Grandma…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/my-little-brother-s-greatest-fear-was-that-the-one-person-who-meant/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

> [“She listened for the pain in my words, not to the narrative itself. She was intuiting what it meant to me, what was most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/she-listened-for-the-pain-in-my-words-not-to-the-narrative-itself-she/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

> [The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/the-relationship-with-the-words-someone-uses-is-more-intimate-and/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

> [Ruth hadn't talked to my sister since before my death, and then it was only to excuse herself in the hallway at school. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/ruth-hadn-t-talked-to-my-sister-since-before-my-death-and-then-it-was/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/since-then-i-ve-always-thought-that-under-rape-in-the-dictionary-it/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

> [I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/i-live-in-a-world-where-two-truths-coexist-where-both-hell-and-hope/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

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