Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Free
Photo
Girl
Burn
Away
Kiss
Didn
Chosen
Wanted
Somehow
Look
Kissing
Looks
Anymore
Either
Toss

More quotes by Alice Sebold

Image
I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever.
Alice Sebold
Image
If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.
Alice Sebold
Image
You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going.
Alice Sebold
Image
but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.
Alice Sebold
Image
I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.
Alice Sebold
Image
I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
Alice Sebold
Image
I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.
Alice Sebold
Image
At fourteen, my sister sailed away from me into a place I’d never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows.
Alice Sebold
Image
Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.
Alice Sebold
Image
I fell in love with you again While you were away - Jack Salmon
Alice Sebold
Image
Do you miss Susie? Because it was dark, because Ruth was facing away from her,because Ruth was almost a stranger, Lindsey said what she felt. More than anyone will ever know.
Alice Sebold
Image
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.
Alice Sebold
Image
But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room where the green chair was still warm from his body, I blew that lonely, flickering candle out
Alice Sebold
Image
Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.
Alice Sebold
Image
But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with the sort of helplessness I had not felt in death — the helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human — feeling as you went, groping in corners and opening your arms to light - all of it part of navigating the unknown.
Alice Sebold
Image
I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.
Alice Sebold
Image
Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family will not follow. A language they do not speak.
Alice Sebold
Image
He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway
Alice Sebold
Image
But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone. ~pg 254
Alice Sebold
Image
Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an hour count sometimes I'm just happy to string a few words together. I do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get anything done.
Alice Sebold