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One Quotes by Alice Sebold
- The moon is whole all the time, but we can’t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest…
- You look invincible,' my mother said one night. I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped…
- Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn’t mean the weaker one doesn’t…
- She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths and hold them.…
- 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…
- As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I had a choice,…
- There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.
- 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…
- 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 in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look what I found…
- Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had…
- 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…
- 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 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…
- No one on the street thought anything of the downtown girl dressed in black who had paused in the middle of midtown foot traffic. In…
- I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.
- There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.
- Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before
- She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was…
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