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“Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

“What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant
gone.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

“And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

“I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.”

Alice Sebold book Lucky

Source: Lucky

“Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

“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 book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

“The living deserve attention, too”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

“There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

“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 book Lucky

Source: Lucky

“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.”

Alice Sebold book The Almost Moon

Source: The Almost Moon

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

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

“He had been my almost. My might-have-been.

I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss.

Still, I collected kiss stories.

-Susie Salmon”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

“I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss it away, but he didn't want to look at me anymore, either.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

“But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

“She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.”

Alice Sebold

“Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: "She’s never coming home." A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone who had ever known me had accepted. But he needed to say it, and she needed to hear him say it.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones