Quotes by Alice Sebold

About Alice Sebold:

Alice Sebold is an American writer. She has published three books: Lucky (1999), The Lovely Bones (2002), and The Almost Moon (2007).
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Judging Natalie as my mother had judged me was, I felt like telling her son, just my ass-backward way of showing love. I'd spent my life trying to translate that language, and now I realized I had come to speak it fluently. When was it that you reali...

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Only by thinking I had freedom had I come to understand how imprisoned I was.

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I would do what I did best, I thought. I would wait. It was only a matter of time, after all.

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Fucking bastards are simple by nature.

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I knew my mother's limitations because they formed the marrow of my bones.

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

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The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an outdoor cafe for a cup of coffee, and look down at her skirt and see the dark traces of spilled vodka or whiskey. The alcohol...

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The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: "booze affects material as it does people.

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She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.

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I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but because she was more talented than her teachers. She was the quietest kind of rebel. Helpless, really.

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This little girl's grown up by now," she said. Almost. Not quite. I wish you all a long and happy life.

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Placing blame was easier than adding up the mounting figures of what he'd lost.

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He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.

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I was like I was in science class: I was curious.

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These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without...

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

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That night my mother had what she considered a wonderful dream. She dreamed of the country of India, where she had never been. There were orange traffic cones and beautiful lapis lazuli insects with mandibles of gold. A young girl was being led throu...

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Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.

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There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closures, the ghostly fingering, practice and practice and...

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What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child

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Author Bio

  • NameAlice Sebold
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornSeptember 6, 1962
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksThe Lovely Bones; The Almost Moon; Lucky