Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Always
Destroy
Since
Means
Tell
Forcible
Thought
Rape
Truth
Inhabit
Everything
Intercourse
Mean
Dictionary

More quotes by Alice Sebold

Image
I forgive you, I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.
Alice Sebold
Image
Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
Alice Sebold
Image
I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
Alice Sebold
Image
How to Commit the Perfect Murder was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.
Alice Sebold
Image
She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.
Alice Sebold
Image
Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.
Alice Sebold
Image
Every day a question mark.
Alice Sebold
Image
Nothing is ever certain.
Alice Sebold
Image
There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closures, the ghostly fingering, practice and practice and then, incredibly, sound and melody and warmth.
Alice Sebold
Image
The sun came through the branches of the tree above her, and Ruth looked up past them. I think she listens, she said, too softly to be heard.
Alice Sebold
Image
I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 p.m.
Alice Sebold
Image
It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway.
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
I'm fine with whatever comes my way, and whatever doesn't come my way I'm fine with too. I have a very laissez-faire attitude with the whole thing.
Alice Sebold
Image
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
Alice Sebold
Image
She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.
Alice Sebold
Image
Your first kiss is destiny knocking.
Alice Sebold
Image
Please don't let Daddy die Susie, he whispered. I need him.
Alice Sebold
Image
Books and novels in particular that grapple with quite a few things are difficult to explain, so I think that first line can come in a substitute for trying to form a longer sense of what the book is about.
Alice Sebold
Image
At the tips of the feathers there is air and at their base: blood. I hold up bones I wish like broken glass they could court light....still I try to place these pieces back together, to set them firm, to make murdered girls live again.
Alice Sebold