If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“When Lindsey and I played Barbies Barbie and Ken got married at sixteen. To us there was only one true love in… — Alice Sebold Marriage Copy Share Image
But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room… — Alice Sebold Body 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 Friend Copy Share Image
“I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but… — Alice Sebold Art Copy Share Image
After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or… — Alice Sebold Admiration Copy Share Image
There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I mean, if I went into my closet, I could find a previous draft and try to figure that out, but it… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“For three nights he hadn't known how to touch my mother or what to say. Before, they had never found themselves broken… — Alice Sebold Parenting Copy Share Image
I don't do much public speaking. I did a lot of stuff for Bones, and then ended up having said yes to… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn’t calculate my steps. I didn’t have time for contemplation. In… — 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
“My mother gave Lindsey a meaningful look. 'We are not discussing this further. You can go up to your room and wait… — Alice Sebold Parenting Copy Share Image
“Since then he had taken these photos out too many times to count, but each time he looked into the face of… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Inside the room it was dark now, the florescent light behind my father flickering so slightly it lit only the most obvious… — Alice Sebold Parenting Copy Share Image
“Lindsey and I would lie down on the floor underneath it. I would pretend to be the knight that was pictured, and… — Alice Sebold Frozen in time Copy Share Image
“As I watched my family sip champagne, I thought about how their lives trailed backward and forward from my death and then,… — Alice Sebold Death Copy Share Image
“Since their first kiss in our kitchen two weeks after my death, I had known that he was - as my sister… — Alice Sebold Death Copy Share Image
“My father worked behind closed doors inside the house, had a huge ancient Latin dictionary on a wrought-iron stand, spoke Spanish on… — Alice Sebold Behind closed doors Copy Share Image
And there she was, alone and walking out in the cornfield while everyone else I cared for sat together in one room.… — Alice Sebold Accidents Copy Share Image
“Buckley followed the three of them into the kitchen and asked, as he had at least once a day, “Where’s Susie?” They… — Alice Sebold Life is unfair Copy Share Image
Everyday he got up. Before sleep wore off, he was who he used to be. Then, as his consciousness woke, it was… — Alice Sebold Consciousness Copy Share Image
