Alice Sebold Quotes - Page 5

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• Ruth hadn't talked to my sister since before my death, and then it was only to excuse herself in the hallway at school. But she'd seen Lindsey walking home with Samuel and seen her smile with him. She watched as my sister said yes to pancakes and no to everything else. She had tried to imagine herself being my sister as she had spent time imagining being me.

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  Home, School, Ruth

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• Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had been a way, by touching, to borrow from the stronger one's strength.

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  Broken, Touching, Together

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.20, Pan Macmillan

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• Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with and set the clipper ship free on its blue putty sea. And I would wait for him, recognizing the tension of that moment when the world in the bottle depended, solely, on me.

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  Father, Blue, Sea

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

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• There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closures, the ghostly fingering, practice and practice and then, incredibly, sound and melody and warmth.

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  Father, Heart, Practice

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.99, Pan Macmillan

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• Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.

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  Pain, Stories, Bones

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.129, Pan Macmillan

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• At fourteen, my sister sailed away from me into a place I’d never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows.

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  Sex, Wall, Blood

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

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• In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual', I thought it was all crap.

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  Spiritual, Crap

  "Above and beyond". Interview with Katharine Viner, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2002.

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• The moon is whole all the time, but we can’t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest is hiding just out of view, but there’s only one moon, so we follow it in the sky. We plan our lives based on its rhythms and tides.

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  Moon, Views, Sky

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• The earth has a mouth?” Buckley asked. A big round mouth but with no lips,” my father said. Jack,” my mother said, laughing, “stop it. Do you know I caught him outside growling at the snapdragons?

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  Mother, Father, Laughing

  Alice Sebold (2002). “The Lovely Bones”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.

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  Mean, Failing, Stills

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• I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

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  Distance, Ignorance, Thinking

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• I left my mark on that man.

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  Men, Mark, Left

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• 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.

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  Growing Up, Thinking, Evil

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

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

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  Listening, Shy, Input

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• The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience.

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  Unique, Editors, Use

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• 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.

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  People, Want, Weirdness

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

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  Thinking, Personality, Kind

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• In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In Remember Me Like This, Johnston presents an incisive dismantling of an all-too-comforting fallacy: that in being found we are no longer lost.

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  Comforting, Portraits, Remember

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• 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.

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  Quilts, Humble, Hands

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

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• I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been, and I did not want to leave him

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  Eye, Happy Love, Want

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.200, Pan Macmillan

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• As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag.

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  Oil, Bags, Stains

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.40, Pan Macmillan

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• Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.

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  Loss, Used

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.193, Pan Macmillan

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• Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.

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  Imagination, Creative, Process

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• Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.

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  Dad, Mean, My Dad

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.59, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Giving, Earth, Lovely Bones

  "The Lovely Bones". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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