Quote

People grow up by living.

Alice Sebold

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Grows
Living
People
Grow

More quotes by Alice Sebold

Image
Please don't let Daddy die Susie, he whispered. I need him.
Alice Sebold
Image
No one on the street thought anything of the downtown girl dressed in black who had paused in the middle of midtown foot traffic. In her art student camouflage she could walk the entire length of Manhattan and, if not blend in, be classified and therefore ignored.
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
One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.
Alice Sebold
Image
I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.
Alice Sebold
Image
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.
Alice Sebold
Image
I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who has survived a gut-shot, the wound had been closing, closing - braiding into a scar for eight long years.
Alice Sebold
Image
He was beginning to understand: You were treated special and, later, something horrible would be told to you.
Alice Sebold
Image
You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.
Alice Sebold
Image
As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life
Alice Sebold
Image
When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things, Franny said. What about the dead? I asked. Where do we go?
Alice Sebold
Image
A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon
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
She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.
Alice Sebold
Image
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
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
Every day a question mark.
Alice Sebold
Image
I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.
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
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