Alice Sebold Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.

  Alice Sebold

  Children, Father, Lovely Bones

  "The Lovely Bones". www.imdb.com. 2009.

• I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They would go back to their homes and put me to rest, a letter from the past never to be reopened or reread. And I could say goodbye to them, wish them well, bless them somehow for their good thoughts. A handshake in the street, a dropped item picked up and retrieved and handed back, or a friendly wave from the distant window, a nod, a smile, a moment when the eyes lock over the antics of a child.

  Alice Sebold

  Girl, Goodbye, Children

• 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.

  Alice Sebold

  Children, Two, Clarity

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.137, Pan Macmillan

• What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child

  Alice Sebold

  Children, Animal, Thinking

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.97, Pan Macmillan

• Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.

  Alice Sebold

  Children, Two, Three

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.198, Pan Macmillan

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