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Paula Sharp

Paula Sharp Biography

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Paula Sharp, born in 1957, is an accomplished author known for her diverse works that are characterized by deep insight and rich imagination.

Paula Sharp, born in 1957, is an accomplished author known for her diverse works that are characterized by deep insight and rich imagination.

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“Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the innocence of childhood.”

Lord Written Childhood Harm Innocence Novelists

Author:Paula Sharp

“Rage keeps the person who feels it company. It moves into the hollows left by grief and loss, and turns inside you like a dark furred animal that grows and fills you; it kills off loneliness and takes its place.”

Feels Persons Moving Turns Left Grows Dark Loss Animal Grief Company Loneliness Hatred Rage Grief And Loss

Book:I Loved You All: A Novel

Source: I Loved You All: A Novel

“Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality.”

Persons Sometimes Quality Strange Conformity Non Conformity Redeeming Redeeming Qualities

Author:Paula Sharp

“Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their dimensions against your own firm or shaky sense of who you are.”

States Absolutes Who You Are Arise Firm Isolation Dimensions Belonging Conformity Within You Nothingness Non Conformity

Book:I Loved You All

Source: I Loved You All

“... although many people say it is a terrible onus to be labeled bad as a child, I thought that the opposite must be worse: If you knew early that you had wickedness in you, you could learn to accept it, if not to wrestle against it. But if you believed that you were essentially good, then when you finally found the ocean of evil in yourself, surely it would come as a terrible shock.”

People Ifs Children Evil Found Accepting Terrible Ocean Opposites Shock Conformity Wickedness If You Believe Non Conformity

Book:I Loved You All: A Novel

Source: I Loved You All: A Novel

About the Author

Born: 1957
Known for: Author
Quotes: 5

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I Loved You AllRelated source material

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