Quotes from book

The Lovely Bones

“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.”

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

“He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.”

“I left my mark on that man.”

“Your first kiss is destiny knocking.”

“I wish you all a long and happy life”

“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”

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

“The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away. But when people left they always came back.”

“Do you miss Susie?"
Because it was dark, because Ruth was facing away from her, because Ruth was almost a stranger, Lindsey said what she felt.
"More than anyone will ever know.”

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

“Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.”

“As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag.”

“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.”

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

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

“The living deserve attention, too”

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