Alice Sebold Quotes About Bones

Quotes about: Bones

• Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it. The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, "Don't worry, Susie; he has a nice life. He's trapped in a perfect world.

  Alice Sebold

  Father, Nice, Fall

  Alice Sebold (2002). “The Lovely Bones”, p.5, Hachette UK

• These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.

  Alice Sebold

  Lovely, Events, Connections

  The Lovely Bones ch. 23 (2002)

• 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

  Way, Cameras, Bones

  Alice Sebold (2002). “The Lovely Bones”, p.102, Hachette UK

• My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.

  Alice Sebold

  Names, Salmon, Firsts

  The Lovely Bones ch. 1 (2002)

• Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.

  Alice Sebold

  Long, Gone, Someone You Love

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.184, Pan Macmillan

• "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

  Done, Goes On, Bones

  "The Lovely Bones". Book by Alice Sebold, 2002.

• What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.

  Alice Sebold

  Mean, Lovely, Rays

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

• I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.

  Alice Sebold

  Forever, One Day, Safe

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.219, Pan Macmillan

• 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

  Beautiful, Running, Eight

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.172, Pan Macmillan

• 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

  Girl, Air, Blood

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.220, Pan Macmillan

• Stones and bones; snow and frost; seeds and beans and polliwogs. Paths and twigs, assorted kisses, We all know who Daddy misses! His two little frogs of girls, that’s who. They know where they are, do you, do you?

  Alice Sebold

  Girl, Kissing, Two

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

• 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

  Quilts, Hands, Color

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.229, Pan Macmillan

• Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.

  Alice Sebold

  Pain, Stories, Bones

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.129, Pan Macmillan

• I don't do much public speaking. I did a lot of stuff for Bones, and then ended up having said yes to a lot of things that kept me on the road for a while for that, but then I pretty much stopped. I'm touring for this book, but when the tour is done, that'll be the end of it.

  Alice Sebold

  Book, Done, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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