Alice Sebold Quotes

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• I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
• I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever.
• I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been,…
• Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those…
• I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand
• In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual', I thought it was all crap,
• At fourteen, my sister sailed away from me into a place I’d never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood,…
• To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.
• You save yourself or you remain unsaved.
• Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
• Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble and…
• I left my mark on that man.
• Nothing is ever certain.
• 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 would pull me…
• How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.
• Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to…
• The moon is whole all the time, but we can’t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest…
• These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I…
• Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.
• He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up…

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