Alice Sebold Quotes
Alice Sebold Quotes
Nothing is ever certain.
2575Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.
4700I fell in love with you again; While you were away - Jack Salmon
4719Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.
3252Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.
1793You save yourself or you remain unsaved.
1744My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
2952Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.
4966After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.
2112I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.
4956He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.
2479There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.
2317I was like I was in science class: I was curious.
4290She had needed the time to know that this love would not destroy her, and I had, I now knew, given her that time, could give it, for it was what I had in great supply.
3826I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but because she was more talented than her teachers. She was the quietest kind of rebel. Helpless, really.
1704Oh sweetheart, do you really think if you
seal it up, that the pain's gonna go away?
3447There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closures, the ghostly fingering, practice and practice and then, incredibly, sound and melody and warmth.
2815What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child
3911I never let myself yearn for Buckley, afraid he might see my image in a mirror or a bottle cap. Like everyone else I was trying to protect him.
3807Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
1132I would do what I did best, I thought. I would wait. It was only a matter of time, after all.
4950Fucking bastards are simple by nature.
3799Only by thinking I had freedom had I come to understand how imprisoned I was.
2738She wasn't actually speaking to me, she was singing a kind of lullaby of talk. But, eventually, the music stopped.
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