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9f84fff	Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.	dreams re-direction re-thinking epiphany	Alice Sebold
51dc133	Nothing is ever certain.	lies death truth phrases cruel sad	Alice Sebold
5e197f4	Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.	murderers monsters	Alice Sebold
3f32ad0	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 b..	death life inspirational	Alice Sebold
dd5e389	Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it. The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, "Do..		Alice Sebold
4dba5f0	Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.		Alice Sebold
af548fb	Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.	kiss gasoline-rainbow	Alice Sebold
ad333ae	How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away."	murder	Alice Sebold
5dacab3	Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.	reality	Alice Sebold
86c4ae8	Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn't mean the weaker one doesn't love the stronger.		Alice Sebold
a4af022	Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.		Alice Sebold
aa9799b	This is just a temporary hell, not a permanent one		Alice Sebold
c62b710	Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.	rape murder family inspirational haunting imaginative personal-growth	Alice Sebold
46127aa	My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.	inspirational first-lines opening-lines life-and-death	Alice Sebold
9c57745	I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand		Alice Sebold
1ae5786	Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.		Alice Sebold
5ae2432	You look invincible,' my mother said one night. I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped in my thin gown, and said: I am.		Alice Sebold
4b7960f	You don't notice the dead leaving when they really choose to leave you. You're not meant to. At most you feel them as a whisper or the wave of a whisper undulating down. I would compare it to a woman in the back of a lecture hall or theater whom no one notices until she slips out.Then only those near the door themselves, like Grandma Lynn, notice; to the rest it is like an unexplained breeze in a closed room. Grandma Lynn died several years..		Alice Sebold
5e4f9b0	No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.		Alice Sebold
80fa505	I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.		Alice Sebold
981fea0	Your first kiss is destiny knocking.		Alice Sebold
c99216b	When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?"		Alice Sebold
b082b8f	Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.		Alice Sebold
2724efc	What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.	the-lovely-bones	Alice Sebold
50282db	I fell in love with you again; While you were away - Jack Salmon	sweet-talk	Alice Sebold
bae160c	And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.		Alice Sebold
71841fa	Buckley followed the three of them into the kitchen and asked, as he had at least once a day, "Where's Susie?" They were silent. Samuel looked at Lindsey. "Buckley," my father called from the adjoining room, "come play Monopoly with me." My brother had never been invited to play Monopoly. Everyone said he was too young, but this was the magic of Christmas. He rushed into the family room, and my father picked him up and sat him on his lap. "..		Alice Sebold
a1f9b66	His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother for everything -- for her brokenness and her fleeing, for her being there right then in that moment before the sun rose and the hospital staff came in. It was about touching that hair with the side of his fingertip, and knowing yet plumbing fearlessly the depths of her ocean eyes.		Alice Sebold
4e16352	Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble and grand. The word my grandfather uses is comfort. So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything. Give no story. Make no claim. Where you can live at the edge of your skin..		Alice Sebold
7973817	I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death."	rape violence	Alice Sebold
8c156c5	The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an outdoor cafe for a cup of coffee, and look down at her skirt and see the dark traces of spilled vodka or whiskey. The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: 'booze affects material as it does people'.	drinking stain black	Alice Sebold
d1c6dd0	The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak of a chill in the air. The mates of the deceased wake from dreams and see a figure standing at the end of thier bed, or in a doorway, or boarding, phantomlike, a city bus.		Alice Sebold
c8d894d	If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee.		Alice Sebold
62c85e4	Hey, Ocean Eyes," my father said. "Where'd you go on us?"	ocean-eyes	Alice Sebold
0b92bd8	The living deserve attention, too		Alice Sebold
6f7d776	I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.	magazine promises	Alice Sebold
50b11f7	And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look what I found at the old industrial park," he said. "A construction guy said they were bulldozing the whole lot. They're afraid of sink holes like that one that swallowed the cars." His wife poured him some water from the sink as he fingered the tiny bike and the ballet shoe, the flower basket and the thimble. He held out the muddy ..		Alice Sebold
f35e13b	There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.		Alice Sebold
3b8ffa4	The moon is whole all the time, but we can't always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest is hiding just out of view, but there's only one moon, so we follow it in the sky. We plan our lives based on its rhythms and tides.		Alice Sebold
bdbb285	Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.		Alice Sebold
4e049b4	There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.	funny life-quotes	Alice Sebold
c88d80b	I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined.		Alice Sebold
f919352	There's no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.		Alice Sebold
129b19f	I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss it away, but he didn't want to look at me anymore, either.		Alice Sebold

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

dreams re-direction re-thinking epiphany

Alice Sebold

51dc133

Nothing is ever certain.

lies death truth phrases cruel sad

Alice Sebold

5e197f4

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

murderers monsters

Alice Sebold

3f32ad0

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 b..

death life inspirational

Alice Sebold

dd5e389

Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it. The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, "Do..

Alice Sebold

4dba5f0

Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.

Alice Sebold

af548fb

Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.

kiss gasoline-rainbow

Alice Sebold

ad333ae

How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away."

murder

Alice Sebold

5dacab3

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

reality

Alice Sebold

86c4ae8

Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn't mean the weaker one doesn't love the stronger.

Alice Sebold

a4af022

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

Alice Sebold

aa9799b

This is just a temporary hell, not a permanent one

Alice Sebold

c62b710

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

rape murder family inspirational haunting imaginative personal-growth

Alice Sebold

46127aa

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

inspirational first-lines opening-lines life-and-death

Alice Sebold

9c57745

I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand

Alice Sebold

1ae5786

Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.

Alice Sebold

5ae2432

You look invincible,' my mother said one night. I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped in my thin gown, and said: I am.

Alice Sebold

4b7960f

You don't notice the dead leaving when they really choose to leave you. You're not meant to. At most you feel them as a whisper or the wave of a whisper undulating down. I would compare it to a woman in the back of a lecture hall or theater whom no one notices until she slips out.Then only those near the door themselves, like Grandma Lynn, notice; to the rest it is like an unexplained breeze in a closed room. Grandma Lynn died several years..

Alice Sebold

5e4f9b0

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

Alice Sebold

80fa505

I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.

Alice Sebold

981fea0

Your first kiss is destiny knocking.

Alice Sebold

c99216b

When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?"

Alice Sebold

b082b8f

Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.

Alice Sebold

2724efc

What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.

the-lovely-bones

Alice Sebold

50282db

I fell in love with you again; While you were away - Jack Salmon

sweet-talk

Alice Sebold

bae160c

And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.

Alice Sebold

71841fa

Buckley followed the three of them into the kitchen and asked, as he had at least once a day, "Where's Susie?" They were silent. Samuel looked at Lindsey. "Buckley," my father called from the adjoining room, "come play Monopoly with me." My brother had never been invited to play Monopoly. Everyone said he was too young, but this was the magic of Christmas. He rushed into the family room, and my father picked him up and sat him on his lap. "..

Alice Sebold

a1f9b66

His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother for everything -- for her brokenness and her fleeing, for her being there right then in that moment before the sun rose and the hospital staff came in. It was about touching that hair with the side of his fingertip, and knowing yet plumbing fearlessly the depths of her ocean eyes.

Alice Sebold

4e16352

Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble and grand. The word my grandfather uses is comfort. So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything. Give no story. Make no claim. Where you can live at the edge of your skin..

Alice Sebold

7973817

I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death."

rape violence

Alice Sebold

8c156c5

The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an outdoor cafe for a cup of coffee, and look down at her skirt and see the dark traces of spilled vodka or whiskey. The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: 'booze affects material as it does people'.

drinking stain black

Alice Sebold

d1c6dd0

The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak of a chill in the air. The mates of the deceased wake from dreams and see a figure standing at the end of thier bed, or in a doorway, or boarding, phantomlike, a city bus.

Alice Sebold

c8d894d

If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee.

Alice Sebold

62c85e4

Hey, Ocean Eyes," my father said. "Where'd you go on us?"

ocean-eyes

Alice Sebold

0b92bd8

The living deserve attention, too

Alice Sebold

6f7d776

I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.

magazine promises

Alice Sebold

50b11f7

And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look what I found at the old industrial park," he said. "A construction guy said they were bulldozing the whole lot. They're afraid of sink holes like that one that swallowed the cars." His wife poured him some water from the sink as he fingered the tiny bike and the ballet shoe, the flower basket and the thimble. He held out the muddy ..

Alice Sebold

f35e13b

There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.

Alice Sebold

3b8ffa4

The moon is whole all the time, but we can't always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest is hiding just out of view, but there's only one moon, so we follow it in the sky. We plan our lives based on its rhythms and tides.

Alice Sebold

bdbb285

Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.

Alice Sebold

4e049b4

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

funny life-quotes

Alice Sebold

c88d80b

I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined.

Alice Sebold

f919352

There's no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.

Alice Sebold

129b19f

I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss it away, but he didn't want to look at me anymore, either.

Alice Sebold