Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination. — Alice Sebold Books Copy Share Image
I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet. — Alice Sebold Medical Copy Share Image
I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed… — Alice Sebold Animal Copy Share Image
I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so… — Alice Sebold Home Copy Share Image
“She was in the downstairs bathroom sneaking bites from the macaroons my father's firm always sent us for Christmas. She ate them… — Alice Sebold Parenting Copy Share Image
One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse;… — Alice Sebold Dictionary Copy Share Image
“Everything in her wanted to run -fly back to California, back to her quiet existence working among strangers. Hiding out in the… — Alice Sebold Anonymity Copy Share Image
“One day, Buckley came home from the second grade with a story he’d written: “Once upon a time there was a kid… — Alice Sebold Story Copy Share Image
“When you begin to go over the edge, life receding from you as a boat recedes inevitably from shore, you hold on… — Alice Sebold Death Copy Share Image
“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 Technology Copy Share Image
“There are secret rooms inside us,” I had said to my therapist. “A relatively benign construct,” he said, and so I did… — Alice Sebold Mother and father Copy Share Image
Well, it's my voice, so it's more accessible that way, and there are also all sorts of things like plot and timelines… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“He hadn't woken a day since my death when the day wasn’t something to get through. But the truth was, the memorial… — Alice Sebold Death Copy Share Image
Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“If I walked too far and wondered loud enough the fields would change. I could look down and see horse corn and… — Alice Sebold Heaven Copy Share Image
“Just that winter she had found herself saying to a young woman who worked with her at the tasting bar on Saturdays… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
It's something that I know how to do because I taught for a very long time, so I can do it, and… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“And a soul would run by a living being, touch them softly on the shoulder or cheek, and continue on its way… — Alice Sebold After death Copy Share Image
“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 Desire Copy Share Image
“As he wrote, the candle in the window kept flickering, and despite his desk lamp the flickering distracted him. He sat back… — Alice Sebold Frightening Copy Share Image
“I realized then that they would not know when I was gone, just as they could not know how heavily I hovered… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“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 Dad died Copy Share Image
What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I went to church irregularly and was mostly reading comics in the pew. — Alice Sebold Church Copy Share Image
Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time. — Alice Sebold Cry Copy Share Image
“I would do what I did best, I thought. I would wait. It was only a matter of time, after all.” — Alice Sebold Life lessons Copy Share Image
I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
