5 Quotes & Sayings By Melissa Seligman

Melissa Seligman is the author of the forthcoming novel, The Year of Magical Thinking, which is set to be published by Simon & Schuster in June 2011. She was also the co-author (with Joan Price) of The End of Your Life Book Club for Random House. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.

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I hate myself that I wasn't there for him. I hate that I could not feel it in him. How could I not know what had happened? How could I not hear it in his voice, his comments, or in his demeanor? He needed my help, and I couldn't feel it. Melissa Seligman
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There is no way to imagine what it feels like to be shot at. I will never be with him when he is the most scared. Melissa Seligman
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Afghanistan changed him, but Iraq sculpted him. Melissa Seligman
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As he moves through his day, sometimes he stops and just stares at me. There is something on the tip of his tongue. But he doesn't say it. I'm not sure he knows what it is. Melissa Seligman