Best Alice Sebold Sayings
- Everyday he got up. Before sleep wore off, he was who he used to be. Then, as his consciousness woke, it was as if poison… Consciousness
- The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak of a chill… Acutely
- Do you miss Susie?" Because it was dark, because Ruth was facing away from her,because Ruth was almost a stranger, Lindsey said what she felt.… Anyone
- I would do exactly what you are doing: I would talk to everyone I needed to, I would not tell too many people his name.… Everyone
- But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room where the green… Blew
- He was beginning to understand: You were treated special and, later, something horrible would be told to you. Beginning
- As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I had a choice,… Choice
- There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war. Adjusts
- I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They would go back… Almost Everyone
- Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone. Blood
- I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who… Beautiful
- Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go Go
- Please don't let Daddy die Susie," he whispered. "I need him. Daddy
- Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time. Been
- When the music stopped, it could have been forever since we'd begun. My grandfather took a step back, and the light grew yellow at his… Asked
- The living deserve attention, too Attention
- Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: "She’s never coming home." A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone… Accepted
- At the tips of the feathers there is air and at their base: blood. I hold up bones; I wish like broken glass they could… Air
- And there she was, alone and walking out in the cornfield while everyone else I cared for sat together in one room. She would always… Accident
- And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be. Left
- And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look what I found… Afraid
- The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound. Change
- These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals and her poems.… Around Like
- 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 she'd… Death
- Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with… Blue
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