How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away. — 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
To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Almost everyone in heaven has someone on Earth they watch, a loved one, a friend, or even a stranger who was once… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil.… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“After a few days in heaven, I realized that the javelin-throwers and the shot-putters and the boys who played basketball on the… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“If I walked too far and wondered loud enough the fields would change. I could look down and see horse corn and… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“And a soul would run by a living being, touch them softly on the shoulder or cheek, and continue on its way… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Do you ever think of her?' she asked. They were quiet again. All the time,' Ruth said. A chill ran down my… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Sometimes Holly seemed like she wasn't paying attention, and other times she was gone when I went looking for her. That was… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
She was unaware that she was somewhat of a celebrity up in heaven. I had told people about her, what she did,… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Almost everyone in heaven has someone on Earth they watch, a loved one, a friend or even a stranger who was once… — 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… — 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
