Alice Sebold

The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak…

— Alice Sebold

“The living room seemed to be where no living ever actually occurred.”

— Alice Sebold

“On the flight to Phillidelphia, she sat alone in the middle of a row of three seats. She could not help but…

— Alice Sebold

“Almost everyone in heaven has someone on Earth they watch, a loved one, a friend, or even a stranger who was once…

— Alice Sebold

“I had wondered if all mothers shared a fear of how vibrant and alive their children were.”

— Alice Sebold

“He sat down among the evidence at a barren communal desk in the basement of the station. He looked through the stack…

— Alice Sebold

Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family…

— Alice Sebold

He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.

— Alice Sebold

Nothing is ever certain.

— Alice Sebold

Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew…

— Alice Sebold

For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil.…

— Alice Sebold

“Your sordid life is your sordid life. You shouldn't live it if you don't like it.”

— Alice Sebold

“I wondered if this longing in a three-year-old had sparked what came at eight. That fuzzy feeling of difference, that her crushes…

— Alice Sebold

“When she saw a strange man whom she didn't trust, she did an immediate breakdown in her mind. It was quicker -…

— Alice Sebold

He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway

— Alice Sebold

Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.

— Alice Sebold

“I have never liked the phone. Ten years ago, during a misguided fit of self-improvement, I pasted smiley-faced stickers on the phone…

— Alice Sebold

“Occasionally my mother called from California. My parents had hurried and difficult conversations. She asked after Buckley and Linsey and Holiday. She…

— Alice Sebold

“I focused very hard on the dead geranium in his line of vision. I thought if I could make it bloom he…

— Alice Sebold

He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss…

— Alice Sebold

“Those clothes are Susie's,' my father said calmly when he reached him. Buckley looked down at my blackwatch dress that he held…

— Alice Sebold

Almost everyone in heaven has someone on Earth they watch, a loved one, a friend or even a stranger who was once…

— Alice Sebold

Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?

— Alice Sebold

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

— Alice Sebold

If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.

— Alice Sebold