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Alice Sebold Quotes | Quotes said by Alice Sebold

  • Alice Sebold Quote #1

    ...y vi, mientras Samuel daba el atrevido paso de besar a Lindsey delante de toda la familia, que emprendían por fin el vuelo, alejándose de mi muerte.


  • Alice Sebold Quote #2

    After 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.

  • Alice Sebold Quote #3

    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 Quote #4

    For me the saddest thing was that these animals smelled the brokenness in him – the human defect – and kept away.

  • Alice Sebold Quote #5

    He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.

  • Alice Sebold Quote #6

    Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

  • Alice Sebold Quote #7

    Horror on earth is real and it is everyday. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.

  • Alice Sebold Quote #8

    How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?

  • Alice Sebold Quote #9

    I could not imagine my youngest standing above her soiled grandmother in the wing chair and saying, mother, let's kill her. That's the only choice.

  • Alice Sebold Quote #10

    I forgive you, I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.

  • Alice Sebold Quote #11

    I knew my mother's limitations because they formed the marrow of my bones.

  • Alice Sebold Quote #12

    I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

  • Alice Sebold Quote #13

    I 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.

  • Alice Sebold Quote #14

    I 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.

  • Alice Sebold Quote #15

    I was like I was in science class: I was curious.

  • Alice Sebold Quote #16

    I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.

  • Alice Sebold Quote #17

    In the tunnel where I was raped, a tunnel that was once an underground entry to an amphitheater, a place where actors burst forth from underneath the seats of a crowd, a girl had been murdered and dismembered. I was told this story by the police. In comparison, they said, I was lucky.

  • Alice Sebold Quote #18

    Judging Natalie as my mother had judged me was, I felt like telling her son, just my ass-backward way of showing love. I'd spent my life trying to translate that language, and now I realized I had come to speak it fluently. When was it that you realized the thread woven through your DNA carried the relationship deformities of your blood relatives as much as it did their diabetes and bone density?

  • Alice Sebold Quote #19

    Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.

  • Alice Sebold Quote #20

    My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.

  • Alice Sebold Quote #21

    No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

  • Alice Sebold Quote #22

    Nothing is ever certain.

  • Alice Sebold Quote #23

    Oh sweetheart, do you really think if you
    seal it up, that the pain's gonna go away?

  • Alice Sebold Quote #24

    Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.

  • Alice Sebold Quote #25

    Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.

  • Alice Sebold Quote #26

    Outside the hospital, a young girl who was selling small bouquets of daffodils, their green stems tied with lavender ribbons. I watched as my mother bought out the girl's whole stock. Nurse Eliot, who remembered my mother from eight years ago volunteered to help her when she saw her comng down the hall, her arms full of flowers. She rounded up extra water pitchers from a supply closet and together, she and my mother filled them with water and placed the flowers around my father's room while he slept. Nurse Eliot thought that if loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman, my mother had grown even more beautiful.

    (The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold)

  • Alice Sebold Quote #27

    Placing blame was easier than adding up the mounting figures of what he'd lost.

  • Alice Sebold Quote #28

    Ruth, que quería que todos creyeran lo que ella sabía: que los muertos realmente nos hablan, que, en el aire que rodea a los vivos, los espíritus se mueven, se entremezclan y ríen con nosotros. Son el oxígeno que respiramos.

  • Alice Sebold Quote #29

    Samuel walked out to Lindsey then, and there she was in his arms, my sweet butterball babe, born ten years after my fourteen years on Earth: Abigail Suzanne. Little Susie to me. Samuel placed Susie on a blanket near the flowers. And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.

  • Alice Sebold Quote #30

    She 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.

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