--- title: "10 Long Quotes By Alice Sebold" description: "10 Long quotes by Alice Sebold. Plus more from Alice Sebold and more Long sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22b/alice-sebold-999_happiness_i-wish-you-all-a-long-and-happy-life-382_382364.jpg" --- > [I wish you all a long and happy life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/i-wish-you-all-a-long-and-happy-life/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22b/alice-sebold-999_happiness_i-wish-you-all-a-long-and-happy-life-382_382364.jpg) > [I wanted to be a novelist for so long.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/i-wanted-to-be-a-novelist-for-so-long/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/910/alice-sebold-999_long_i-wanted-to-be-a-novelist-for-so-long-34_345727.jpg) > [Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/who-would-have-thought-something-that-happened-that-long-ago-could/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/305/alice-sebold-999_happened_who-would-have-thought-something-that-ha_2632078.jpg) > [Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/sometimes-you-cry-susie-even-when-someone-you-love-has-been-gone-a/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/142/alice-sebold-999_cry_sometimes-you-cry-susie-even-when-someon_2580423.jpg) > [I mean, if I went into my closet, I could find a previous draft and try to figure that out, but it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/i-mean-if-i-went-into-my-closet-i-could-find-a-previous-draft-and-try/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67d/alice-sebold-999_closets_i-mean-if-i-went-into-my-closet-i-could_1191011.jpg) > [I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/i-watched-my-beautiful-sister-running-and-i-knew-she-was-not-running/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e9/alice-sebold-999_beautiful_i-watched-my-beautiful-sister-running-an_3166368.jpg) > [Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/now-i-am-in-the-place-i-call-this-wide-wide-heaven-because-it/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23c/alice-sebold-999_cake_now-i-am-in-the-place-i-call-this-wide-w_2140.jpg) > [My father had not been outside the house except to drive back and forth to work or sit out in the backyard,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/my-father-had-not-been-outside-the-house-except-to-drive-back-and/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9af/alice-sebold-999_accidents_my-father-had-not-been-outside-the-house_1628969.jpg) > [It's something that I know how to do because I taught for a very long time, so I can do it, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/it-s-something-that-i-know-how-to-do-because-i-taught-for-a-very-long/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e5/alice-sebold-999_can-do_it-s-something-that-i-know-how-to-do-bec_1399288.jpg) > [And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/and-in-a-small-house-five-miles-away-was-a-man-who-held-my-mud/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/784/alice-sebold-999_ballet_and-in-a-small-house-five-miles-away-was_2108116.jpg) ## Other authors on Long ## More by Alice Sebold > [Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/now-i-am-in-the-place-i-call-this-wide-wide-heaven-because-it/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) > [I left my mark on that man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/i-left-my-mark-on-that-man/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) > [These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals and her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/these-things-she-felt-were-not-to-be-passed-around-like-disingenuous/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) > [I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/i-don-t-think-ignorance-is-a-way-that-you-gain-distance-on-something/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) > [I was like I was in science class: I was curious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/i-was-like-i-was-in-science-class-i-was-curious/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) > [“There are secret rooms inside us,” I had said to my therapist. “A relatively benign construct,” he said, and so I did not bother…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/there-are-secret-rooms-inside-us-i-had-said-to-my-therapist-a/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) > [“This is just a temporary hell, not a permanent one”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/this-is-just-a-temporary-hell-not-a-permanent-one/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) > [“And a soul would run by a living being, touch them softly on the shoulder or cheek, and continue on its way to heaven.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/and-a-soul-would-run-by-a-living-being-touch-them-softly-on-the/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) > [As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/as-if-in-the-other-side-of-his-kiss-there-could-ve-a-new-life/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/my-little-brother-s-greatest-fear-was-that-the-one-person-who-meant/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) > [“She listened for the pain in my words, not to the narrative itself. She was intuiting what it meant to me, what was most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/she-listened-for-the-pain-in-my-words-not-to-the-narrative-itself-she/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) > [The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/the-relationship-with-the-words-someone-uses-is-more-intimate-and/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) > [Ruth hadn't talked to my sister since before my death, and then it was only to excuse herself in the hallway at school. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/ruth-hadn-t-talked-to-my-sister-since-before-my-death-and-then-it-was/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) > [Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/since-then-i-ve-always-thought-that-under-rape-in-the-dictionary-it/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) > [I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/i-live-in-a-world-where-two-truths-coexist-where-both-hell-and-hope/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/long/alice-sebold/#itemlist", "name": "10 Long Quotes By Alice Sebold", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I wish you all a long and happy life", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alice Sebold" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/i-wish-you-all-a-long-and-happy-life/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22b/alice-sebold-999_happiness_i-wish-you-all-a-long-and-happy-life-382_382364.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22b/alice-sebold-999_happiness_i-wish-you-all-a-long-and-happy-life-382_382364.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22b/alice-sebold-999_happiness_i-wish-you-all-a-long-and-happy-life-382_382364.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I wish you all a long and happy life” — Alice Sebold", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I wanted to be a novelist for so long.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alice Sebold" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/i-wanted-to-be-a-novelist-for-so-long/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/910/alice-sebold-999_long_i-wanted-to-be-a-novelist-for-so-long-34_345727.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/910/alice-sebold-999_long_i-wanted-to-be-a-novelist-for-so-long-34_345727.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/910/alice-sebold-999_long_i-wanted-to-be-a-novelist-for-so-long-34_345727.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I wanted to be a novelist for so long.” — Alice Sebold", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alice Sebold" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/who-would-have-thought-something-that-happened-that-long-ago-could/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/305/alice-sebold-999_happened_who-would-have-thought-something-that-ha_2632078.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/305/alice-sebold-999_happened_who-would-have-thought-something-that-ha_2632078.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/305/alice-sebold-999_happened_who-would-have-thought-something-that-ha_2632078.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?” — Alice Sebold", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alice Sebold" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/sometimes-you-cry-susie-even-when-someone-you-love-has-been-gone-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/142/alice-sebold-999_cry_sometimes-you-cry-susie-even-when-someon_2580423.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/142/alice-sebold-999_cry_sometimes-you-cry-susie-even-when-someon_2580423.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/142/alice-sebold-999_cry_sometimes-you-cry-susie-even-when-someon_2580423.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.” — Alice Sebold", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I mean, if I went into my closet, I could find a previous draft and try to figure that out, but it takes a long time for me to find the voice to tell a story in. 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Look what I found at the old industrial park,\" he said. \"A construction guy said they were bulldozing the whole lot. They're afraid of sink holes like that one that swallowed the cars.\" His wife poured him some water from the sink as he fingered the tiny bike and the ballet shoe, the flower basket and the thimble. He held out the muddy bracelet as she set down his glass. This little girl's grown up by now,\" she said. Almost. Not quite. 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