Quote by Alice Sebold Download Open image ““She was armed to the teeth for any onslaught of sympathy.”” — Alice Sebold ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Hoping in vain that the wound would be enough to kill her - and knowing she was too much a coward to bleed any more than this - Grace continued snipping at her hair.” — Abigail Easton Copy Share
“He grasped her chin trying to make sense of her words, smearing her face with the blood of the people he had killed for… — Konstantina P Copy Share Image
“She was beautiful and radiant. He remembered the concern in her eyes. The same concern drove her now, pushing her toward acts of violence. On the surface, he'd be a fool to turn her down. She was driven by tragedy, just like him, and she would be incorruptible, just like him. He needed a blade to kill, but she could… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share
“But no brutality disgusted her: I suppose she has an innate admiration for it, if only her precious person were secure from injury!” — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
“She had inhibited her sympathy, one genuine sympathetic impulse would have ruined her.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“If the witches wanted a beast, she’d give them teeth and claws. She just hoped that they were ready to bleed for it.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“He, who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces, strove to console her under her disappointment by committing a little violence… — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
“She felt listless, tragic, and slightly murderous. She was irritable and prickly with exactly those people who were the kindest to her.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“And whatever she suffered, he will suffer so much worse, so much worse. However loudly she cried, and begged him to stop, her murderer… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“She stared at him breathlessly, seething. It was like hurling herself against a wall of granite, she thought disjointedly; fighting against him hurt her.… — Teresa Denys Copy Share Image
“When she absently worried her bottom lip with one of her adorable little fangs, he sighed. The Enemy of Old fucking sighed . Dear… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
“Her knees quaked, but she swallowed the blood in her mouth and took another breath. She had not imagined it would end like this.… — Sarah J. Maas 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
“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 Image
“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
