Alice Sebold Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

• How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.

  Alice Sebold

  Games, Perfect, Heaven

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.93, Pan Macmillan

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

  Alice Sebold

  Heaven, Growth, Comfort

• Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because 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

  Quilts, Humble, Hands

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.229, Pan Macmillan

• There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.

  Alice Sebold

  Life, Bullshit, Heaven

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

• Almost everyone in heaven has someone on Earth they watch, a loved one, a friend or even a stranger who was once kind, who offered warm food or a bright smile when one of us had needed it. And when I wasn’t watching I could hear the others talking to those they loved on Earth: just as fruitlessly as me, I’m afraid. A one-sided card cajoling and coaching of the young, a one way loving and desiring of their mates, a single-sided card that could never get signed.

  Alice Sebold

  Talking, Heaven, Coaching

• As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I had a choice, and it was not to divide my family in my heart.

  Alice Sebold

  Father, Heart, Choices

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.113, Pan Macmillan

• Sometimes Holly seemed like she wasn't paying attention, and other times she was gone when I went looking for her. That was when she went to a part of heaven we didn't share. I missed her then, but it was and odd sort of missing because by then I knew the meaning of forever. I could not have what I wanted most: Mr. Harvey dead and me living. Heaven wasn't perfect. But I came to believe that if I watched closely, and desired, I might change the lives of those I loved on Earth.

  Alice Sebold

  Believe, Perfect, Forever

• She was unaware that she was somewhat of a celebrity up in heaven. I had told people about her, what she did, how she observed moments of silence up and down the city and wrote small individual prayers in her journal, and the story had travelled so quickly that women lined up to know she had found where they’d been killed. She had fans in heaven..... Meanwhile, for us, she was doing important work, work that most people on Earth were too frightened even too contemplate.

  Alice Sebold

  Prayer, Cities, People

• For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that for me heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.

  Alice Sebold

  Growing Up, Thinking, Evil

  "PW Talks with Alice Sebold". Interview with Ann Darby, www.publishersweekly.com. Jun 17, 2002.

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