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But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone. — Alice Sebold

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

Oh sweetheart, do you really think if you
seal it up, that the pain's gonna go away? — Alice Sebold

Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to. — 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 stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines. — 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

Our heartache poured into one another like water from cup to cup. — Alice Sebold

My life was over; my life had just begun. — Alice Sebold

The sun came through the branches of the tree above her, and Ruth looked up past them. "I think she listens," she said, too softly to be heard. — Alice Sebold

Only by thinking I had freedom had I come to understand how imprisoned I was. — 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

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something. — 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

Well, as my dad would say, it means she's out of this shithole. — Alice Sebold

You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going. — Alice Sebold

Heaven wasn't perfect. — Alice Sebold

I went to church irregularly and was mostly reading comics in the pew. — 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

Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow. — 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

I never let myself yearn for Buckley, afraid he might see my image in a mirror or a bottle cap. Like everyone else I was trying to protect him. — Alice Sebold

Sometimes cats fall ten flights out of the windows of highrises and land on their feet. You only believe it because you've seen it in print. — 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

Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions — 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

I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe. — Alice Sebold

But I had made contact with a different planet from the one my parents or sister lived on. It was a planet where an act of violence changed your life. — 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

She thought of sex as the Star Trek transport.You vaporized and found yourself navigating another planet within the second or two it took to realign. — 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

I was here for a moment, and then I was gone. I wish you all a long and happy life. — Alice Sebold

We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent. — 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

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 love the stronger. — Alice Sebold

Placing blame was easier than adding up the mounting figures of what he'd lost. — 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

Finally, I thought, I had reached the future that was no future. — Alice Sebold

I'm fine with whatever comes my way, and whatever doesn't come my way I'm fine with too. I have a very laissez-faire attitude with the whole thing. — 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

Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power? — Alice Sebold

I could not imagine my youngest standing above her soiled grandmother in the wing chair and saying, "mother, let's kill her. "That's the only choice. — Alice Sebold

I knew my mother's limitations because they formed the marrow of my bones. — 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

As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life — Alice Sebold

Your first kiss is destiny knocking. — Alice Sebold

Your sordid life is your sordid life. You shouldn't live it if you don't like it. — Alice Sebold

The living room seemed to be where no living ever actually occurred. — Alice Sebold

Do you know how alone I've always felt? — Alice Sebold

I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things. — 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

Every time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. — Alice Sebold

I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously. — Alice Sebold

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. — Alice Sebold

That I wanted more. That night I dreamed of kissing her again and wondered if she was thinking the same thing. — Alice Sebold