“He had to seek out her eyes. They weren't focusing on him. They seemed to be preoccupied, and he wished he could… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“On my way home from the junior high, I would sometimes stop at the edge of our property and watch my mother… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Judging Natalie as my mother had judged me was, I felt like telling her son, just my ass-backward way of showing love.… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“I never let myself yearn for Buckley, afraid he might see my image in a mirror or a bottle cap. Like everyone… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Just that winter she had found herself saying to a young woman who worked with her at the tasting bar on Saturdays… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
My father had not been outside the house except to drive back and forth to work or sit out in the backyard,… — Alice Sebold 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 Copy Share Image
He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my… — 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
