Quote by Alice Sebold Download Open image ““His cruelty was in his absence.”” — Alice Sebold ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“human cruelty was to never be underestimated, always to be believed in,” — Brian Lee Durfee Copy Share Image
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“Cruelty is only for men, as is mercy. Only we can choose one or the other, and beasts cannot.” — Brandon Sanderson 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
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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… — 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