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Moments Quotes by Alice Sebold
- His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother for everything --…
- My father had not been outside the house except to drive back and forth to work or sit out in the backyard, for months, nor…
- My grandmother stepped back into the kitchen to get their drinks. I had come to love her more after death than I ever had on…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst…
- 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…
- She was unaware that she was somewhat of a celebrity up in heaven. I had told people about her, what she did, how she observed…
- I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except…
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