Alice Sebold citations

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

“You look invincible,' my mother said one night.
I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped in my thin gown, and said:
I am.”

“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.”

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

“Nothing is ever certain.”

“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.”

“Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.”

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

“Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.”

“Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn’t mean the weaker one doesn’t love the stronger.”

“This is just a temporary hell, not a permanent one”

“Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.”

“My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.”

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

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

“I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.”

“No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”

“Your first kiss is destiny knocking.”

“When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?”

“Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.”

“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.”