“How can I be expected to be trapped for the rest of my life by a man frozen in time?” — Alice Sebold Frozen in time Copy Share Image
“I was a soul back on Earth. AWOL a little while from heaven.” — Alice Sebold Heaven Copy Share Image
What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I went to church irregularly and was mostly reading comics in the pew. — Alice Sebold Church Copy Share Image
I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet. — Alice Sebold Medical Copy Share Image
He was beginning to understand: You were treated special and, later, something horrible would be told to you. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“...memory could save, that it had power, that it was often the only recourse of the powerless, the oppressed, or the brutalized.” — Alice Sebold Memory Copy Share Image
“The helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human-- feeling as you went-- groping in corners and opening your… — Alice Sebold Helplessness Copy Share Image
I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death. — Alice Sebold Death Copy Share Image
Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot… — Alice Sebold Earth Copy Share Image
There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child. — Alice Sebold Children Copy Share Image
“At nearly two months,the idea of it as news was fading in the hearts of all but my family-and Ruth” — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was… — Alice Sebold Beautiful Copy Share Image
In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In… — Alice Sebold American family Copy Share Image
The earth has a mouth?” Buckley asked. A big round mouth but with no lips,” my father said. Jack,” my mother said,… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I would do exactly what you are doing: I would talk to everyone I needed to, I would not tell too many… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“...between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. "That doesn't mean the… — Alice Sebold Parenting 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 Fear 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
“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
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
“At Eversong, there were all sorts of dogs. And some of them, the ones I liked best, would lift their heads when… — Alice Sebold Smell Copy Share Image
“And as Flora twirled, other girls and women came through the field in all directions. Our heartache poured into one another like… — 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 Cities Copy Share Image
These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that… — Alice Sebold Absence Copy Share Image
“Lindsey took my father's hand and watched his face for movement. My sister was growing up before my eyes. I listened as… — Alice Sebold Parenting Copy Share Image
“In the fall he picked up his phone one afternoon to hear Grandma Lynn. 'Jack,' my grandmother announced, 'I am thinking of… — Alice Sebold Drinking Copy Share Image
“I watched him as he lined up the ships in bottles on his deck, bringing them over from the shelves where they… — Alice Sebold Dead father Copy Share Image
“At some point, to counter the list of the dead, I had begun keeping my own list of the living. It was… — Alice Sebold Grocery store Copy Share Image
Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time. — Alice Sebold Cry Copy Share Image
Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Only by thinking I had freedom had I come to understand how imprisoned I was.” — Alice Sebold Freedom Copy Share Image
“Your sordid life is your sordid life. You shouldn't live it if you don't like it.” — Alice Sebold Life Copy Share Image
