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Alice Sebold Quotes: 9

  • You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

  • Nothing is ever certain.

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

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

    The Lovely Bones
  • Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

    The Lovely Bones
  • Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.

    The Lovely Bones
  • I forgive you,"I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.

    Lucky
  • I was like I was in science class: I was curious.

    The Lovely Bones
  • There were also the Masters of Arcane Knowledge. Everyone begrudged their presence among the gifteds. These were the kids that could break down an engine and build it back again - no diagrams or instructions needed. They understood things in a real, not theoretical, way. They seemed not to care about their grades.