Alice Sebold
Alice Sebold
Alice Seboldis an American writer. She has published three books: Lucky, The Lovely Bones, and The Almost Moon...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth6 September 1963
CityMadison, WI
CountryUnited States of America
mouths hats lovely-bones
He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway
mean lovely rays
What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.
looks lovely-bones keep-going
You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going.
giving earth lovely-bones
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.
children father lovely-bones
There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.
lovely events connections
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.
love-you salmon lovely-bones
I fell in love with you again; While you were away - Jack Salmon
joys understanding
To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual understanding of why you want those things.
comics mostly
I went to church irregularly and was mostly reading comics in the pew.
dynamic hard relationship work
We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent.
men mark left
I left my mark on that man.
mother ocean eye
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.
lying hands two
I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand
spiritual crap
In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual', I thought it was all crap,