Heart Quotes by Alice Sebold

“Her brain was a storm, her usual insight gone.”

— Alice Sebold

“She was hollow and lost and abandoned up.”

— Alice Sebold

She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.

— Alice Sebold

“She wasn't much of a talker when there was nothing to say.”

— Alice Sebold

She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.

— Alice Sebold

“Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for…

— Alice Sebold

But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe…

— Alice Sebold

“The fine wall of leaden crystal that had protected her heart - somehow numbed her into disbelief - shattered.”

— Alice Sebold

“About Grandma Lynn: She was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. At seventy, she had come to believe in time…

— Alice Sebold

As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I…

— Alice Sebold

“When she saw a strange man whom she didn't trust, she did an immediate breakdown in her mind. It was quicker -…

— Alice Sebold

No one on the street thought anything of the downtown girl dressed in black who had paused in the middle of midtown…

— Alice Sebold

She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except…

— Alice Sebold

There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart…

— Alice Sebold

“I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but…

— Alice Sebold

She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she…

— Alice Sebold

“Then she walked, walked flat out, walked with an ache coming up through the earth and into the heel of her striking…

— Alice Sebold

He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel…

— Alice Sebold

My father had not been outside the house except to drive back and forth to work or sit out in the backyard,…

— Alice Sebold