Alice Sebold Quotes

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

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

She wasn't actually speaking to me, she was singing a kind of lullaby of talk. But, eventually, the music stopped.

Oh sweetheart, do you really think if youseal it up, that the pain's gonna go away?

I could not imagine my youngest standing above her soiled grandmother in the wing chair and saying, "mother, let's kill her. "That's the only choice.

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

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

For me the saddest thing was that these animals smelled the brokenness in him – the human defect – and kept away.

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

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