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Out 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…
- He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up…
- As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag.
- Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn’t calculate my steps. I didn’t have time for contemplation. In violence it is…
- 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…
- 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…
- But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with the sort of…
- Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.
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