I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Only by thinking I had freedom had I come to understand how imprisoned I was.” — Alice Sebold Freedom Copy Share Image
My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Your sordid life is your sordid life. You shouldn't live it if you don't like it.” — Alice Sebold Life Copy Share Image
but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this… — Alice Sebold Cold Copy Share Image
The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Exactly,' she said, and made her point as simply as that. There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven. ~pg 8” — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“I never let myself yearn for Buckley, afraid he might see my image in a mirror or a bottle cap. Like everyone… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were… — Alice Sebold Children Copy Share Image
The sun came through the branches of the tree above her, and Ruth looked up past them. "I think she listens," she… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“We stood-- the dead child and the living --on either side of my father, both wanting the same thing. To have him… — Alice Sebold Children Copy Share Image
I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or… — Alice Sebold Admiration Copy Share Image
“I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but… — Alice Sebold Art Copy Share Image
Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: "She’s never coming home." A clear and easy piece of… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Stones and bones; snow and frost; seeds and beans and polliwogs. Paths and twigs, assorted kisses, We all know who Daddy misses!… — Alice Sebold Assorted Copy Share Image
“For three nights he hadn't known how to touch my mother or what to say. Before, they had never found themselves broken… — Alice Sebold Parenting Copy Share Image
I don't do much public speaking. I did a lot of stuff for Bones, and then ended up having said yes to… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I mean, if I went into my closet, I could find a previous draft and try to figure that out, but it… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would… — Alice Sebold Alcohol Copy Share Image
“Since their first kiss in our kitchen two weeks after my death, I had known that he was - as my sister… — Alice Sebold Death Copy Share Image
“As I watched my family sip champagne, I thought about how their lives trailed backward and forward from my death and then,… — Alice Sebold Death Copy Share Image
“Lindsey and I would lie down on the floor underneath it. I would pretend to be the knight that was pictured, and… — Alice Sebold Frozen in time Copy Share Image
Everyday he got up. Before sleep wore off, he was who he used to be. Then, as his consciousness woke, it was… — Alice Sebold Consciousness Copy Share Image
“Buckley followed the three of them into the kitchen and asked, as he had at least once a day, “Where’s Susie?” They… — Alice Sebold Life is unfair Copy Share Image
And there she was, alone and walking out in the cornfield while everyone else I cared for sat together in one room.… — Alice Sebold Accidents Copy Share Image
“My father worked behind closed doors inside the house, had a huge ancient Latin dictionary on a wrought-iron stand, spoke Spanish on… — Alice Sebold Behind closed doors Copy Share Image
You look invincible,' my mother said one night. I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“She wasn't actually speaking to me, she was singing a kind of lullaby of talk. But, eventually, the music stopped. ” — Alice Sebold Lullaby Copy Share Image
I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I'm fine with whatever comes my way, and whatever doesn't come my way I'm fine with too. I have a very laissez-faire… — Alice Sebold Attitude Copy Share Image
If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“If I was aware I would have to tie laces I would not have been able to put my feet into socks.” — Alice Sebold Fashion Copy Share Image
I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful,… — Alice Sebold Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Almost everyone in heaven has someone on Earth they watch, a loved one, a friend, or even a stranger who was once… — Alice Sebold Friend Copy Share Image
