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
Tell
Forcible
Thought
Rape
Truth
Inhabit
Everything
Intercourse
Mean
Dictionary
Always
Destroy
Since
Means

More quotes by Alice Sebold

Image
I think that if you're somebody who's a control freak, the process would make you crazy, but I'm kind of a process freak, so I'm excited to see what he does with it. I know it's not going to be my book, so just starting with that knowledge frees me from having to get all freaked out about it.
Alice Sebold
Image
Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.
Alice Sebold
Image
I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
Alice Sebold
Image
There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.
Alice Sebold
Image
She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.
Alice Sebold
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been, and I did not want to leave him
Alice Sebold
Image
All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.
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
You save yourself or you remain unsaved.
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
The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.
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
Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.
Alice Sebold
Image
Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to.
Alice Sebold
Image
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.
Alice Sebold
Image
She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she seemed to deliberate over the smallest movement of her body.
Alice Sebold
Image
Every day a question mark.
Alice Sebold
Image
How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?
Alice Sebold