--- title: "10 Stills Quotes By Alice Sebold" description: "10 Stills quotes by Alice Sebold. Plus more from Alice Sebold and more Stills sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86d/alice-sebold-999_comfort_heaven-is-comfort-but-it-s-still-not-liv_1292116.jpg" --- > [Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/heaven-is-comfort-but-it-s-still-not-living/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86d/alice-sebold-999_comfort_heaven-is-comfort-but-it-s-still-not-liv_1292116.jpg) > [I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/i-was-trying-to-prove-to-them-and-to-myself-that-i-was-still-who-i/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/195/alice-sebold-999_beautiful_i-was-trying-to-prove-to-them-and-to-mys_3092131.jpg) > [He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/he-had-been-my-almost-my-might-have-been-i-was-afraid-of-what-i/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da1/alice-sebold-999_afraid_he-had-been-my-almost-my-might-have-been_2612050.jpg) > [One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/one-thing-about-failing-repeatedly-if-you-re-still-doing-it-after-you/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f19/alice-sebold-999_failing_one-thing-about-failing-repeatedly-if-yo_2202218.jpg) > [Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/hold-still-my-father-would-say-while-i-held-the-ship-in-the-bottle/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a5/alice-sebold-999_blue_hold-still-my-father-would-say-while-i-h_1236683.jpg) > [But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/but-also-i-wanted-him-to-go-away-and-leave-me-be-i-was-granted-one/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4e/alice-sebold-999_body_but-also-i-wanted-him-to-go-away-and-lea_399765.jpg) > [At the tips of the feathers there is air and at their base: blood. I hold up bones; I wish like broken…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/at-the-tips-of-the-feathers-there-is-air-and-at-their-base-blood-i/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7cb/alice-sebold-999_air_at-the-tips-of-the-feathers-there-is-air_2665224.jpg) > [She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/she-sat-in-her-room-on-the-couch-my-parents-had-given-up-on-and/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b7/alice-sebold-999_couches_she-sat-in-her-room-on-the-couch-my-pare_1184784.jpg) > [I'm not a slash-and-burn kind, and I'm also not a posterity kind. They just kind of exist on my hard drive. It's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/i-m-not-a-slash-and-burn-kind-and-i-m-also-not-a-posterity-kind-they/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d4/alice-sebold-999_behinds_i-m-not-a-slash-and-burn-kind-and-i-m-al_1551720.jpg) > [It was Buckley, as my father and sister joined the group and listened to Grandma Lynn’s countless toasts, who saw me. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/it-was-buckley-as-my-father-and-sister-joined-the-group-and-listened/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee1/alice-sebold-999_air_it-was-buckley-as-my-father-and-sister-j_996578.jpg) ## Other authors on Stills ## 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/stills/alice-sebold/#itemlist", "name": "10 Stills Quotes By Alice Sebold", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alice Sebold" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/heaven-is-comfort-but-it-s-still-not-living/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86d/alice-sebold-999_comfort_heaven-is-comfort-but-it-s-still-not-liv_1292116.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86d/alice-sebold-999_comfort_heaven-is-comfort-but-it-s-still-not-liv_1292116.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86d/alice-sebold-999_comfort_heaven-is-comfort-but-it-s-still-not-liv_1292116.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.” — Alice Sebold", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. 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