“I was a soul back on Earth. AWOL a little while from heaven.” — Alice Sebold Heaven Copy Share Image
Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Finally, I thought, I had reached the future that was no future.” — Alice Sebold Future Copy Share Image
“How can I be expected to be trapped for the rest of my life by a man frozen in time?” — Alice Sebold Frozen in time Copy Share Image
Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them. — Alice Sebold Frightening Copy Share Image
“No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.” — Alice Sebold Determination Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“If you chose to go into someone else's reality, you had to be willing to walk. There were no shortcuts.” — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“That I wanted more. That night I dreamed of kissing her again and wondered if she was thinking the same thing.” — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“You don't notice the dead leaving when they really hoose to leave you. You're not meant to. At most you feel them… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was… — Alice Sebold Beautiful Copy Share Image
“At nearly two months,the idea of it as news was fading in the hearts of all but my family-and Ruth” — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“To take the tops off all the houses and mingle our miseries was too simple a solution, I knew. Houses had windows… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with… — Alice Sebold Alive Copy Share Image
“When he felt his heart hurt he turned into something stronger than a little boy, and he grew up this way. A… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Ruth had been a girl haunted and now she would be a woman haunted. First by accident and now by choice. All… — Alice Sebold Death Copy Share Image
In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In… — Alice Sebold American family Copy Share Image
The earth has a mouth?” Buckley asked. A big round mouth but with no lips,” my father said. Jack,” my mother said,… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I would do exactly what you are doing: I would talk to everyone I needed to, I would not tell too many… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
The moon is whole all the time, but we can’t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
She was unaware that she was somewhat of a celebrity up in heaven. I had told people about her, what she did,… — Alice Sebold Cities Copy Share Image
“At Eversong, there were all sorts of dogs. And some of them, the ones I liked best, would lift their heads when… — Alice Sebold Smell Copy Share Image
“And as Flora twirled, other girls and women came through the field in all directions. Our heartache poured into one another like… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“You don't notice the dead leaving when they really choose to leave you. You're not meant to. At most you feel them… — Alice Sebold Black and white Copy Share Image
“Outside the hospital, a young girl who was selling small bouquets of daffodils, their green stems tied with lavender ribbons. I watched… — Alice Sebold Beauty Copy Share Image
“By December 1975, a year had passed since Mr. Harvey had packed his bags, but there was still no sign of him.… — Alice Sebold Driving fast Copy Share Image
“My father was too distracted to see anything in this. Mimicking my mother, he taped it to the fridge in the same… — Alice Sebold Books Copy Share Image
“Then she walked, walked flat out, walked with an ache coming up through the earth and into the heel of her striking… — Alice Sebold Heart Copy Share Image
