“When Lindsey and I played Barbies Barbie and Ken got married at sixteen. To us there was only one true love in… — Alice Sebold Marriage Copy Share Image
But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room… — Alice Sebold Body Copy Share Image
Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand… — Alice Sebold Death Copy Share Image
I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality. — 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 Susie misses...” — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she… — Alice Sebold Body Copy Share Image
“The fine wall of leaden crystal that had protected her heart - somehow numbed her into disbelief - shattered.” — Alice Sebold Heart Copy Share Image
“When they reached the lobby and the doors opened I knew they were meant to be there, the four of them, alone.” — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“After a few days in heaven, I realized that the javelin-throwers and the shot-putters and the boys who played basketball on the… — Alice Sebold Heaven Copy Share Image
“She listened for the pain in my words, not to the narrative itself. She was intuiting what it meant to me, what… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised… — Alice Sebold Blue Copy Share Image
Books and novels in particular that grapple with quite a few things are difficult to explain, so I think that first line… — Alice Sebold Book Copy Share Image
“We lay there with our bodies touching, and as I shook, a powerful knowledge took hold. He had done this thing to… — Alice Sebold Assault Copy Share Image
“This wide wide Heaven is about flathead nails and the soft down of new leaves, wide roller coaster rides and escaped marbles… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in… — Alice Sebold Death Copy Share Image
His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“She told her journal about me passing by her in the parking lot, about how on that night I had touched her-literally,… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“By the time I was eighteen, she had sat me down and detailed her alcoholism, its onset and aftermath. She believed that… — Alice Sebold Alcoholism Copy Share Image
“At Evensong one night, while Holly played at sax and Mrs. Bethel Utemeyer joined in, I saw him: Holiday, racing past a… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“I was not in the bathroom, in the tub, or in the spigot; I did not hold court in the mirror above… — Alice Sebold Together forever Copy Share Image
My father had not been outside the house except to drive back and forth to work or sit out in the backyard,… — Alice Sebold Accidents Copy Share Image
“It was late in Ruana and Ray's visit when Samuel started talking about the gothic revival house that Lindsey and he had… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“She had a stare that stretched to infinity. She was, in that moment, not my mother but something separate from me.” — Alice Sebold Mother Copy Share Image
Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn’t mean the… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“About Grandma Lynn: She was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. At seventy, she had come to believe in time… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
At fourteen, my sister sailed away from me into a place I’d never been. In the walls of my sex there was… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Horror on earth is real and it is everyday. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.” — Alice Sebold Death Copy Share Image
“This little girl's grown up by now," she said. Almost. Not quite. I wish you all a long and happy life.” — Alice Sebold Beautiful Copy Share Image
The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: "booze affects… — Alice Sebold Alcohol Copy Share Image
Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family… — Alice Sebold Country Copy Share Image
Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her… — Alice Sebold Conformity Copy Share Image
To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness. — Alice Sebold Beautiful Copy Share Image
He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Do you miss Susie?" Because it was dark, because Ruth was facing away from her,because Ruth was almost a stranger, Lindsey said… — Alice Sebold Dark Copy Share Image
