But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“The fine wall of leaden crystal that had protected her heart - somehow numbed her into disbelief - shattered.” — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“About Grandma Lynn: She was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. At seventy, she had come to believe in time… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
No one on the street thought anything of the downtown girl dressed in black who had paused in the middle of midtown… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“When she saw a strange man whom she didn't trust, she did an immediate breakdown in her mind. It was quicker -… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Then she walked, walked flat out, walked with an ache coming up through the earth and into the heel of her striking… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
My father had not been outside the house except to drive back and forth to work or sit out in the backyard,… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble… — Alice Sebold Copy Share
These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals and her… — Alice Sebold Copy Share
“There are secret rooms inside us,” I had said to my therapist. “A relatively benign construct,” he said, and so I did not bother… — Alice Sebold Copy Share
“And a soul would run by a living being, touch them softly on the shoulder or cheek, and continue on its way to heaven.… — Alice Sebold Copy Share
“My little brother's greatest fear was that the one person who meant so much to him would go away. He loved Lindsey and Grandma… — Alice Sebold Copy Share
“She listened for the pain in my words, not to the narrative itself. She was intuiting what it meant to me, what was most… — Alice Sebold Copy Share
The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This… — Alice Sebold Copy Share
Ruth hadn't talked to my sister since before my death, and then it was only to excuse herself in the hallway at school. But… — Alice Sebold Copy Share
Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means… — Alice Sebold Copy Share
I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand — Alice Sebold Copy Share
