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Had my brother really seen me somehow, or was he merely a boy telling beautiful lies?
— Alice Sebold
If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.
— Alice Sebold
She wasn't much of a talker when there was nothing to say.
— Alice Sebold
There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.
— Alice Sebold
She was armed to the teeth for any onslaught of sympathy.
— Alice Sebold
He wore his own innocence like a comfortable old coat.
— Alice Sebold
I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever.
— Alice Sebold
Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go
— Alice Sebold
I was like I was in science class: I was curious.
— Alice Sebold
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 to thee.
— Alice Sebold
Look what happens when we dream.
— Alice Sebold
My life was over; my life had just begun.
— Alice Sebold
If I was aware I would have to tie laces I would not have been able to put my feet into socks.
— Alice Sebold
She had a stare that stretched to infinity.
— Alice Sebold
Exactly,' she said, and made her point as simply as that. There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.~pg 8 — Alice Sebold
greatest hope. Last night it had been my father who'd
— Alice Sebold
Something so divine that no one up in heaven could have made it up; the care a child took with an adult.
— Alice Sebold
When was it all right to let go not only of the dead but of the living - to learn to accept?
— Alice Sebold
I felt like observing my way out of there, but I didn't.
— Alice Sebold
Heaven wasn't perfect.
— Alice Sebold
How to Commit the Perfect Murder was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.
— Alice Sebold
I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.
— Alice Sebold
Fucking bastards are simple by nature.
— Alice Sebold
My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
— Alice Sebold
Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before
— Alice Sebold
I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.
— Alice Sebold
They would go back to their homes and put me to rest, a letter from the past never reopened or reread.
— Alice Sebold
You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.
— Alice Sebold
He had been my almost. My might-have-been.I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss.
Still, I collected kiss stories.
-Susie Salmon — Alice Sebold
Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.
— Alice Sebold
The fine wall of leaden crystal that had protected her heart - somehow numbed her into disbelief - shattered.
— Alice Sebold
When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily
— Alice Sebold
Every day a question mark.
— Alice Sebold
I feel like I'm standing in the wake of a volcano erruption.
— Alice Sebold
At nearly two months,the idea of it as news was fading in the hearts of all but my family-and Ruth
— Alice Sebold
So much in life is about almosts, not quites.
— Alice Sebold
He took the hat from my mouth. 'Tell me you love me', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway
— Alice Sebold
I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 P.M.
— Alice Sebold
Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.
— Alice Sebold
A father's suspicion...' she began.Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.'
~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon — Alice Sebold
Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
— Alice Sebold
How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?
— Alice Sebold
I wanted to be a novelist for so long.
— Alice Sebold
I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.
— Alice Sebold
I would do what I did best, I thought. I would wait. It was only a matter of time, after all.
— Alice Sebold
It was ugly and precious all at once.
— Alice Sebold
The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left they always came back.
— Alice Sebold
I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet.
— Alice Sebold
His cruelty was in his absence.
— Alice Sebold
I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.
— Alice Sebold
But, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.
— Alice Sebold
The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.
— Alice Sebold
One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.
— Alice Sebold
I left my mark on that man.
— Alice Sebold
I had wondered if all mothers shared a fear of how vibrant and alive their children were.
— Alice Sebold
In the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway
— Alice Sebold
I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.
— Alice Sebold
She was hollow and lost and abandoned up.
— Alice Sebold
Try to breathe, he said, and for the first time the only thought in my head after an instruction like that wasn't Fuck you.I breathed. — Alice Sebold
I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand
— Alice Sebold
Your first kiss is destiny knocking.
— Alice Sebold
Do you know how alone I've always felt?
— Alice Sebold
Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was an immaculate anonymity.
— Alice Sebold
As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag.
— Alice Sebold
You're dead and you have to accept it.
— Alice Sebold
