My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“I would do what I did best, I thought. I would wait. It was only a matter of time, after all.” — Alice Sebold Life lessons Copy Share Image
I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“If you chose to go into someone else's reality, you had to be willing to walk. There were no shortcuts.” — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“That I wanted more. That night I dreamed of kissing her again and wondered if she was thinking the same thing.” — 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 Anonymity Copy Share Image
He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“This wide wide Heaven is about flathead nails and the soft down of new leaves, wide roller coaster rides and escaped marbles… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“I focused very hard on the dead geranium in his line of vision. I thought if I could make it bloom he… — Alice Sebold Dreams Copy Share Image
I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me.… — Alice Sebold Beautiful Copy Share Image
I was motivated to write about violence because I believe it's not unusual. I see it as just a part of life,… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog. I missed him in a way I hadn't yet let myself miss my… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
At the tips of the feathers there is air and at their base: blood. I hold up bones; I wish like broken… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in… — Alice Sebold Death Copy Share Image
When the music stopped, it could have been forever since we'd begun. My grandfather took a step back, and the light grew… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“That night my mother had what she considered a wonderful dream. She dreamed of the country of India, where she had never… — 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 Attention Copy Share Image
“I now think that was distanced me from Tricia and from the Rape Crisis Center was their use of generalities. I did… — Alice Sebold Advocacy 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 Heart Copy Share Image
“On my way home from the junior high, I would sometimes stop at the edge of our property and watch my mother… — Alice Sebold Father Copy Share Image
“You don't notice the dead leaving when they really choose to leave you. You're not meant to. At most you feel them… — Alice Sebold Black and white Copy Share Image
“My father was too distracted to see anything in this. Mimicking my mother, he taped it to the fridge in the same… — Alice Sebold Books Copy Share Image
“Outside the hospital, a young girl who was selling small bouquets of daffodils, their green stems tied with lavender ribbons. I watched… — Alice Sebold Beauty Copy Share Image
“I knew my mother's limitations because they formed the marrow of my bones.” — Alice Sebold Mother Copy Share Image
Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power? — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“our heartache poured into one another like water from cup to cup.” — Alice Sebold Heartache Copy Share Image
He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living. — Alice Sebold Giving Copy Share Image
I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. — Alice Sebold Flower Copy Share Image
“In the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway” — Alice Sebold Failure Copy Share Image
I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
