Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that. — 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
I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death. — 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
You look invincible,' my mother said one night. I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
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
“Exactly,' she said, and made her point as simply as that. There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven. ~pg 8” — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
The earth has a mouth?” Buckley asked. A big round mouth but with no lips,” my father said. Jack,” my mother said,… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
When the music stopped, it could have been forever since we'd begun. My grandfather took a step back, and the light grew… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I don't do much public speaking. I did a lot of stuff for Bones, and then ended up having said yes to… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: "She’s never coming home." A clear and easy piece of… — 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
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
And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I would do exactly what you are doing: I would talk to everyone I needed to, I would not tell too many… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?"… — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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… — Alice Sebold Copy Share
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… — Alice Sebold Copy Share
I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand — Alice Sebold Copy Share
