I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things. — Alice Sebold 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 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
For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil.… — 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
