276 Quotes by Alice Sebold

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.

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

Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.

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

Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.

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

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

Nothing is ever certain.

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 then, incredibly, sound and melody and warmth.