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Them Quotes by Alice Sebold
- Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those…
- Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
- The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an…
- I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog. I missed him in a way I hadn't yet let myself miss my mother and father,…
- She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths and hold them.…
- My father had not been outside the house except to drive back and forth to work or sit out in the backyard, for months, nor…
- The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak of a chill…
- I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They would go back…
- At the tips of the feathers there is air and at their base: blood. I hold up bones; I wish like broken glass they could…
- The sun came through the branches of the tree above her, and Ruth looked up past them. "I think she listens," she said, too softly…
- I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I…
- Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before
- I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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