quotes by Alice Sebold
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"Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them."
— Alice Sebold
— Alice Sebold
"No one can pull you back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved."
— Alice Sebold
— Alice Sebold
"Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven beacause it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble and grand. The word my grandfather uses is comfort.
So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything. Give no story. Make no claim. Where you can live at the edge of your skin for as long as you wish. "
— Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)
So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything. Give no story. Make no claim. Where you can live at the edge of your skin for as long as you wish. "
— Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)
"Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, "Don't worry, Susie; he has a nice life. He's trapped in a perfect world.""
— Alice Sebold
— Alice Sebold