Alice Sebold Quotes

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• You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

  Alice Sebold

  Save Yourself

  Alice Sebold (2009). “Lucky”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

  Alice Sebold

  Inspiring, Dream, Destiny

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• I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand

  Alice Sebold

  Lying, Hands, Two

  Alice Sebold (2009). “Lucky”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Beautiful, Girl, Hate

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

  Alice Sebold

  Garden, Needs, Loses

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

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• Your first kiss is destiny knocking.

  Alice Sebold

  Kissing, Destiny, First Kiss

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

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• Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.

  Alice Sebold

  Mean, Telling The Truth, Should

  Alice Sebold (2009). “Lucky”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

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• I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined.

  Alice Sebold

  Beautiful, Smart, Trying

  Alice Sebold (2009). “Lucky”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.

  Alice Sebold

  Men, Monsters, Murderer

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

  Alice Sebold

  Heaven, Growth, Comfort

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• These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.

  Alice Sebold

  Lovely, Events, Connections

  The Lovely Bones ch. 23 (2002)

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• Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family will not follow. A language they do not speak.

  Alice Sebold

  Country, Language, Problem

  Alice Sebold (2017). “Lucky”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.

  Alice Sebold

  Eye, Disappear, Whole

  Alice Sebold (2009). “Lucky”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?

  Alice Sebold

  Long Ago, Long, Happened

  Alice Sebold (2009). “Lucky”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• I fell in love with you again; While you were away - Jack Salmon

  Alice Sebold

  Love You, Salmon, Lovely Bones

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• 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

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• To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.

  Alice Sebold

  Beautiful, Narrative, Language

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• 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

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• We have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things. So it made sense to me to reflect the human condition that not every action has an explanation. We act, and then later maybe come to an understanding about it, or maybe not.

  Alice Sebold

  People, Understanding, Desire

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.

  Alice Sebold

  Firsts, Conformity, Weirdness

  Alice Sebold (2009). “Lucky”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is ever certain.

  Alice Sebold

  Death, Certain

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.19, Pan Macmillan

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

  Alice Sebold

  Pain, Stories, Bones

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

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• She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. 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 immaculate anonymity.

  Alice Sebold

  World, Imagine, Time Of Day

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.177, 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.

  Alice Sebold

  Giving, Earth, Lovely Bones

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

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