Lovely Bones Quotes

• 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

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• He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway

  Alice Sebold

  Mouths, Hats, Ends

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

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• 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)

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• Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

  Alice Sebold

  Inspiring, Dream, Destiny

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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.

  Alice Sebold

  Broken, Touching, Together

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.20, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

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• How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.

  Alice Sebold

  Games, Perfect, Heaven

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.93, Pan Macmillan

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• 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)

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• 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

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• I wish you all a long and happy life

  Alice Sebold

  Happy Life, Long, Wish

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.222, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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, Murderer

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

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• Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.

  Alice Sebold

  Life, Real, Flower

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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.

  Alice Sebold

  Giving, Earth, Hours

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

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• At fourteen, my sister sailed away from me into a place I’d never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows.

  Alice Sebold

  Sex, Wall, Blood

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.93, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

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• If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Inspirational, Writing, Giving

  Espana, 20 Nov. 1920

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• I fell in love with you again; While you were away - Jack Salmon

  Alice Sebold

  Love You, Salmon, I Fell In Love With You

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• 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

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• 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

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• Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with and set the clipper ship free on its blue putty sea. And I would wait for him, recognizing the tension of that moment when the world in the bottle depended, solely, on me.

  Alice Sebold

  Father, Blue, Sea

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

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• You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going.

  Alice Sebold

  Looks, Keep Going

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• "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.

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