“Placing blame was easier than adding up the mounting figures of what he'd lost.” — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living. — Alice Sebold Giving Copy Share Image
“our heartache poured into one another like water from cup to cup.” — Alice Sebold Heartache Copy Share Image
“In the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway” — Alice Sebold Failure Copy Share Image
I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. — Alice Sebold Flower Copy Share Image
And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before — Alice Sebold 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
“She thought of sex as the Star Trek transport.You vaporized and found yourself navigating another planet within the second or two it… — Alice Sebold Star trek Copy Share Image
I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it.… — Alice Sebold Cameras Copy Share Image
When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about… — Alice Sebold Assumption Copy Share Image
“I explained myself like this: I did not feel adamant about saying no, but I also didn't feel adamant about saying yes,… — Alice Sebold Saying yes Copy Share Image
If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would… — Alice Sebold Earth Copy Share Image
I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if… — Alice Sebold Actions Copy Share Image
No one on the street thought anything of the downtown girl dressed in black who had paused in the middle of midtown… — Alice Sebold Art Copy Share Image
A lot of people ask questions that they don't want to answer themselves, and if we're honest about the intimacy that we… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I think that if you're somebody who's a control freak, the process would make you crazy, but I'm kind of a process… — Alice Sebold Book Copy Share Image
It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew… — Alice Sebold Earth Copy Share Image
“Take deep breaths and hold them. Try to stay still for longer and longer periods of time. Make yourself small and like… — Alice Sebold Breaths Copy Share Image
I couldn't help but think, as I watched him, of the barrels of toxic fluids that had accrued behind Hal's bike shop… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Do you ever think of her?' she asked. They were quiet again. All the time,' Ruth said. A chill ran down my… — Alice Sebold Heaven Copy Share Image
“He sat down among the evidence at a barren communal desk in the basement of the station. He looked through the stack… — Alice Sebold Murderer Copy Share Image
“It was then that I slipped in the darkness, unable to know if I could be seen. I made myself small in… — Alice Sebold Brother and sister Copy Share Image
It was Buckley, as my father and sister joined the group and listened to Grandma Lynn’s countless toasts, who saw me. He… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Above his bed the clock ticked off the minutes and I thought of the game Lindsey and I had played in the… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
We have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends… — Alice Sebold Action Copy Share Image
“On the flight to Phillidelphia, she sat alone in the middle of a row of three seats. She could not help but… — Alice Sebold Mother Copy Share Image
Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power? — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“I knew my mother's limitations because they formed the marrow of my bones.” — Alice Sebold Mother Copy Share Image
“Every time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.” — Alice Sebold Pain Copy Share Image
“The living room seemed to be where no living ever actually occurred.” — Alice Sebold Life Copy Share Image
Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow. — Alice Sebold Accident Copy Share Image
