Alice Sebold Quotes About Flowers

Quotes about: Flowers

• Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. 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

  Pain, Real, Flower

  Alice Sebold (2002). “The Lovely Bones”, p.90, Hachette UK

• 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, Real, Flower

• 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 at the old industrial park," he said. "A construction guy said they were bulldozing the whole lot. They're afraid of sink holes like that one that swallowed the cars." His wife poured him some water from the sink as he fingered the tiny bike and the ballet shoe, the flower basket and the thimble. He held out the muddy bracelet as she set down his glass. This little girl's grown up by now," she said. Almost. Not quite. I wish you all a long and happy life.

  Alice Sebold

  Girl, Flower, Happy Life

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