The sun came through the branches of the tree above her, and Ruth looked up past them. "I think she listens," she… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Do you miss Susie?" Because it was dark, because Ruth was facing away from her,because Ruth was almost a stranger, Lindsey said… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“At nearly two months,the idea of it as news was fading in the hearts of all but my family-and Ruth” — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Ruth had been a girl haunted and now she would be a woman haunted. First by accident and now by choice. All… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
And there she was, alone and walking out in the cornfield while everyone else I cared for sat together in one room.… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Ruth hadn't talked to my sister since before my death, and then it was only to excuse herself in the hallway at… — 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
