“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
“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
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
“I focused very hard on the dead geranium in his line of vision. I thought if I could make it bloom he… — 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
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals and her… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“There are secret rooms inside us,” I had said to my therapist. “A relatively benign construct,” he said, and so I did not bother… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“And a soul would run by a living being, touch them softly on the shoulder or cheek, and continue on its way to heaven.… — 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 and Grandma… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“She listened for the pain in my words, not to the narrative itself. She was intuiting what it meant to me, what was most… — Alice Sebold 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 be. This… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
