Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Outside the hospital, a young girl who was selling small bouquets of daffodils, their green stems tied with lavender ribbons. I watched… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“How can I be expected to be trapped for the rest of my life by a man frozen in time?” — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“As I watched my family sip champagne, I thought about how their lives trailed backward and forward from my death and then,… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it a secret from yourself as you woke daily… — 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
“When he felt his heart hurt he turned into something stronger than a little boy, and he grew up this way. A… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone. — 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
