Stories Quotes 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…

— Alice Sebold

I left my mark on that man.

— 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…

— Alice Sebold

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

— Alice Sebold

I was like I was in science class: I was curious.

— 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…

— Alice Sebold

“This is just a temporary hell, not a permanent one”

— 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.…

— Alice Sebold

As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Alice Sebold

I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand

— Alice Sebold