Alice Sebold Quotes

A collection of quotes by Alice Sebold.

Alice Sebold is an American author born on September 6, 1963. She gained significant recognition for her debut novel, "The Lovely Bones," published in 2002. The book, which explores the aftermath of a young girl's murder from her perspective in the afterlife, became an international bestseller and was later adapted into a successful film. Sebold's writing often delves into difficult subjects and utilizes her own life experiences, including a personal encounter with sexual assault, to create emotionally charged narratives. Apart from "The Lovely Bones," Sebold has also penned novels such as "Lucky" and "The Almost Moon."

Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has bee

Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.

Love

You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

Inspirational Rape Self Responsibility

Nothing is ever certain.

Nothing is ever certain.

Death Truth Sad Lies Cruel Absolutes Phrases

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

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

Death Love Loss Inspirational Child

You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any

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.

Beauty Hate Wishes Beautiful

She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked

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.

Alone Inspirational Isolation Anonymity

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence

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 me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.

Life Death Inspirational

After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend,

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.

Truth

That night my mother had what she considered a wonderful dre

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 through the streets. She was taken to a pyre where she was wound in a sheet and placed up on a platform built from sticks. The bright fire that consumed her brought my mother into that deep, light, dreamlike bliss. The girl was being burned alive, but, first, there had been her body, clean and whole.

Dreams Sacrifice Dream Fire India Burn Burnedalive Funeralpyre Pyre

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

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

Science Curiosity

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

Family Inspirational Murder Rape Personal Growth Haunting Imaginative

Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most

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

Murder