Alice Sebold Lovely Quotations

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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