Quotes of Alice Sebold - somelinesforyou

“ I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality. ”

- Alice Sebold

“ Nothing is ever certain. ”

- Alice Sebold

“ You save yourself or you remain unsaved. ”

- Alice Sebold

“ Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had. ”

- Alice Sebold

“ These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connectionssometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificentthat happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life. ”

- Alice Sebold

“ Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained. ”

- Alice Sebold

“ Life is a perpetual yesterday for us. ”

- Alice Sebold

“ You save yourself or you remain unsaved. ”

- Alice Sebold

“ These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connectionssometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificentthat happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life. ”

- Alice Sebold

“ Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living. ”

- Alice Sebold

“ My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered. ”

- Alice Sebold

“ Nothing is ever certain. ”

- Alice Sebold

“ 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 is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of. ”

- Alice Sebold

“ Nothing is ever certain. ”

- Alice Sebold

“ These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connectionssometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificentthat happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life. ”

- Alice Sebold

“ I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death. ”

- Alice Sebold

“ He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living. ”

- Alice Sebold

“ I was like I was in science class: I was curious. ”

- Alice Sebold

“ Horror on earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained. ”

- Alice Sebold

“ Horror on earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained. ”

- Alice Sebold
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