Alice Sebold Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• 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

  Eye, Happy Love, Want

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.200, Pan Macmillan

• Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?

  Alice Sebold

  Father, Ocean, Eye

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.152, Pan Macmillan

• His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother for everything -- for her brokenness and her fleeing, for her being there right then in that moment before the sun rose and the hospital staff came in. It was about touching that hair with the side of his fingertip, and knowing yet plumbing fearlessly the depths of her ocean eyes.

  Alice Sebold

  Mother, Ocean, Eye

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

• 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

• After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.

  Alice Sebold

  Eye, Facts, Lovers

  Alice Sebold (2009). “Lucky”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

• If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.

  Alice Sebold

  Eye, Disappear, Whole

  Alice Sebold (2009). “Lucky”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

• 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

  Eye, House, Dancer

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.64, Pan Macmillan

• He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up the sides of skyscrapers. He was the Hulk when angry and Spidey the rest of the time. When he felt his heart hurt he turned into something stronger than a little boy, and he grew up this way. A heart that flashed from heart to stone, heart to stone. As I watched I thought of what Grandma Lynn liked to say when Lindsey and I rolled our eyes or grimaced behind her back. "Watch out what faces you make. You'll freeze that way.

  Alice Sebold

  Strong, Hurt, Grandma

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.154, Pan Macmillan

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