Alice Sebold: Trending quotes (page 2)

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“The living deserve attention, too”

“I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.”

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”