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Alice Sebold
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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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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.
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For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that for me heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.
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What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.
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As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life
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Please don't let Daddy die Susie, he whispered. I need him.
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I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture.
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I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined.
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He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.
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I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
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Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.
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Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had been a way, by touching, to borrow from the stronger one's strength.
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As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I had a choice, and it was not to divide my family in my heart.
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She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths and hold them. Try to stay still for longer and longer periods of time. Make yourself small and like a stone. Curl the edges of yourself up and fold them under where no one can see. ~pg 29, Susie's sister Lindsey dealing with grief.
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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.
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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.
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It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.
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I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever.
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Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before
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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.
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