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....

Samuel walked out to Lindsey then, and there she was in his arms, my sweet butterball babe, born ten....

Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself....

You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But....

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

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.

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

The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and....