I thought if I was very quiet, I would hear you. If I was still enough, you might come back. — Alice Sebold Feeling lonely Copy Share Image
“I had wondered if all mothers shared a fear of how vibrant and alive their children were.” — Alice Sebold Children Copy Share Image
“I was a soul back on Earth. AWOL a little while from heaven.” — Alice Sebold Heaven Copy Share Image
“Finally, I thought, I had reached the future that was no future.” — Alice Sebold Future Copy Share Image
Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe… — Alice Sebold Alone time Copy Share Image
I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it.… — Alice Sebold Cameras Copy Share Image
“When he felt his heart hurt he turned into something stronger than a little boy, and he grew up this way. A… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“She thought of sex as the Star Trek transport.You vaporized and found yourself navigating another planet within the second or two it… — Alice Sebold Star trek Copy Share Image
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… — Alice Sebold Earth Copy Share Image
The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew… — Alice Sebold Earth Copy Share Image
“Take deep breaths and hold them. Try to stay still for longer and longer periods of time. Make yourself small and like… — Alice Sebold Breaths Copy Share Image
Ruth hadn't talked to my sister since before my death, and then it was only to excuse herself in the hallway at… — Alice Sebold Being me Copy Share Image
The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever… — Alice Sebold Author Copy Share Image
“If you stop asking why you were killed instead of someone else, stop investigating the vacuum left by your loss, stop wondering… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“To take the tops off all the houses and mingle our miseries was too simple a solution, I knew. Houses had windows… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with… — Alice Sebold Alive Copy Share Image
“Just that winter she had found herself saying to a young woman who worked with her at the tasting bar on Saturdays… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Those clothes are Susie's,' my father said calmly when he reached him. Buckley looked down at my blackwatch dress that he held… — Alice Sebold Dad died Copy Share Image
The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would… — Alice Sebold Alcohol Copy Share Image
“I wondered if this longing in a three-year-old had sparked what came at eight. That fuzzy feeling of difference, that her crushes… — Alice Sebold Desire Copy Share Image
“As he wrote, the candle in the window kept flickering, and despite his desk lamp the flickering distracted him. He sat back… — Alice Sebold Frightening Copy Share Image
“I realized then that they would not know when I was gone, just as they could not know how heavily I hovered… — 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 Angry Copy Share Image
I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
