No one on the street thought anything of the downtown girl dressed in black who had paused in the middle of midtown foot traffic. In her art student camouflage she could walk the entire length of Manhattan and, if not blend in, be classified and therefore ignored.
("The Lovely Bones")
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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 in the air. The mates of the deceased wake from dreams and see a figure standing at the end of thier bed, or in a doorway, or boarding, phantomlike, a city bus.Alice Sebold
The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left they always came back.
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At fourteen my sister sailed away from me into a place I'd never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows.
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He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.
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Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.
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As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag.
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