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 Image
We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things.” — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“When was it all right to let go not only of the dead but of the living - to learn to accept?” — Alice Sebold 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
One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so… — Alice Sebold Home Copy Share Image
I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound. — Alice Sebold Change Copy Share Image
“He had to seek out her eyes. They weren't focusing on him. They seemed to be preoccupied, and he wished he could… — Alice Sebold Love Copy Share Image
A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon — Alice Sebold Father Copy Share Image
As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the… — 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 Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Samuel walked out to Lindsey then, and there she was in his arms, my sweet butterball babe, born ten years after my… — Alice Sebold Novel Copy Share Image
“How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it a secret from yourself as you woke daily… — Alice Sebold Lovely bones Copy Share Image
“I was unable to recognize something that I would come up against time and time again. You could not be filled with… — Alice Sebold Hate Copy Share Image
I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I'm not a slash-and-burn kind, and I'm also not a posterity kind. They just kind of exist on my hard drive. It's… — 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
The moon is whole all the time, but we can’t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Ruth had been a girl haunted and now she would be a woman haunted. First by accident and now by choice. All… — Alice Sebold Death 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
It was Buckley, as my father and sister joined the group and listened to Grandma Lynn’s countless toasts, who saw me. He… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“It was then that I slipped in the darkness, unable to know if I could be seen. I made myself small in… — Alice Sebold Brother and sister 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 Heaven Copy Share Image
We have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends… — Alice Sebold Action Copy Share Image
“On the flight to Phillidelphia, she sat alone in the middle of a row of three seats. She could not help but… — Alice Sebold Mother Copy Share Image
“Above his bed the clock ticked off the minutes and I thought of the game Lindsey and I had played in the… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“My little brother's greatest fear was that the one person who meant so much to him would go away. He loved Lindsey… — Alice Sebold Every morning Copy Share Image
