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Me Quotes by Alice Sebold
- At fourteen, my sister sailed away from me into a place I’d never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood,…
- 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 would pull me…
- These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I…
- As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag.
- Sometimes Holly seemed like she wasn't paying attention, and other times she was gone when I went looking for her. That was when she went…
- I couldn't help but think, as I watched him, of the barrels of toxic fluids that had accrued behind Hal's bike shop where the scrub…
- But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room where the green…
- I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They would go back…
- I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who…
- Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: "She’s never coming home." A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone…
- And there she was, alone and walking out in the cornfield while everyone else I cared for sat together in one room. She would always…
- And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
- Ruth hadn't talked to my sister since before my death, and then it was only to excuse herself in the hallway at school. But she'd…
- Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with…
- He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway
- I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss…
- I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could…
- It was Buckley, as my father and sister joined the group and listened to Grandma Lynn’s countless toasts, who saw me. He saw me standing…
- Almost everyone in heaven has someone on Earth they watch, a loved one, a friend or even a stranger who was once kind, who offered…
- I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone.…
- What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser…
- After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it…
- 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 give my love…
More Me Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale