Alice Sebold quotes

The living deserve attention, too. (Alice Sebold)
Your first kiss is destiny knocking.
Alice Sebold
There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.
Alice Sebold
If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee.
Alice Sebold
There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.
Alice Sebold
I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss it away, but he didn't want to look at me anymore, either.
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But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone. ~pg 254.
Alice Sebold
A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon.
Alice Sebold
Do you miss Susie?" Because it was dark, because Ruth was facing away from her,because Ruth was almost a stranger, Lindsey said what she felt. "More than anyone will ever know.
Alice Sebold
You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going.
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Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living. (Alice Sebold)
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand.
Alice Sebold
You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.
Alice Sebold
I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
Alice Sebold
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 was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined.
Alice Sebold
Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.
Alice Sebold
Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
Alice Sebold
Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family will not follow. A language they do not speak.
Alice Sebold
If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.
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Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power? (Alice Sebold)
How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.
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I fell in love with you again; While you were away - Jack Salmon.
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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 I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.
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What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.
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