Quotes by : Alice Sebold

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

Try to breathe," he said, and for the first time the only thought in my head after an instruction like....

What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed....

I could not imagine my youngest standing above her soiled grandmother in the wing chair and saying, "mother,....

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

At some point, to counter the list of the dead, I had begun keeping my own list of the living. It was....

Soon she noted that teachers in subjects besides gym didn't report her if she cut. They were happy not....

My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.

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

I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused....