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World Quotes by Alice Sebold

9 World quotes by Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold shares nine brief, introspective lines about the world, each echoing her poignant storytelling. The collection is small but delivers a thoughtful, emotional resonance.

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She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.

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“She could shut out the whole world, including herself.”

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

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When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about…

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A lot of people ask questions that they don't want to answer themselves, and if we're honest about the intimacy that we…

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She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except…

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Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised…

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These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that…

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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…

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I left my mark on that man.

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

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

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“There are secret rooms inside us,” I had said to my therapist. “A relatively benign construct,” he said, and so I did not bother…

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

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“And a soul would run by a living being, touch them softly on the shoulder or cheek, and continue on its way to heaven.…

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

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“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…

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“She listened for the pain in my words, not to the narrative itself. She was intuiting what it meant to me, what was most…

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The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This…

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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…

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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…

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

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