Alice Sebold Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. 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. Lucky

2. Nothing is ever certain. The Lovely Bones

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

4. I was like I was in science class: I was curious. The Lovely Bones

5. Judging Natalie as my mother had judged me was, I felt like telling her son, just my ass-backward way of showing love. I'd spent my life trying to translate that language, and now I realized I had come to speak it fluently. When was it that you realized the thread woven through your DNA carried the relationship deformities of your blood relatives as much as it did their diabetes and bone density? The Almost Moon

6. Samuel walked out to Lindsey then, and there she was in his arms, my sweet butterball babe, born ten years after my fourteen years on Earth: Abigail Suzanne. Little Susie to me. Samuel placed Susie on a blanket near the flowers. And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be. The Lovely Bones

7. She had needed the time to know that this love would not destroy her, and I had, I now knew, given her that time, could give it, for it was what I had in great supply. The Lovely Bones

8. There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven. The Lovely Bones