276 Quotes by Alice Sebold

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.

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

How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?

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

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

He hadn't woken a day since my death when the day wasn’t something to get through. But the truth was, the memorial service day was not the worst kind. At least it was honest. At least it was a day shaped around what they were so preoccupied by: my absence. Today he would not have to pretend he was getting back to normal—whatever normal was.

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.

Try to breathe," he said, and for the first time the only thought in my head after an instruction like that wasn't Fuck you.I breathed.

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