“Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.”
Source: The Lovely Bones
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Alice Sebold 60
American writer 1963Related quotes

“Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.”

“To stagnate in the sun, goldenly, like an obscure lake surrounded by flowers.”
On a strictly intellectual life.
A Factless Autobiography, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, 2006, p. 70
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Estagnar ao sol, douradamente, como um lago obscuro rodeado de flores.
“Come on in. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone — and to no one.”
“Come On In”, p. 88
The Journey Home (1977)

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