Quotes from book
Lucky

Name: Lucky
Author: Alice Sebold

Lucky is a 1999 memoir by American novelist Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones. The memoir describes her experiences of being raped and how the experience shaped the rest of her life.

“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.”

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

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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.”

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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.”

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

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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”

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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.”

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“After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.”

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

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Variant: You save yourself or you remain unsaved
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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.”

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