Zitate von Alice Sebold

„Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.“

—  Alice Sebold, buch The Lovely Bones

„You look invincible,' my mother said one night.
I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped in my thin gown, and said:
I am.“

—  Alice Sebold, buch The Lovely Bones

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

—  Alice Sebold, buch The Lovely Bones

„Nothing is ever certain.“

—  Alice Sebold, buch The Lovely Bones

„Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. 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, buch The Lovely Bones

„Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.“

—  Alice Sebold, buch The Lovely Bones

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

—  Alice Sebold, buch 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.“

—  Alice Sebold, buch The Lovely Bones

„Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn’t mean the weaker one doesn’t love the stronger.“

—  Alice Sebold, buch The Lovely Bones

„This is just a temporary hell, not a permanent one“

—  Alice Sebold, buch The Lovely Bones

„Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.“

—  Alice Sebold, buch The Lovely Bones

„My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.“

—  Alice Sebold, buch The Lovely Bones

„Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.“

—  Alice Sebold, buch The Lovely Bones

„I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand“

—  Alice Sebold, buch Lucky

„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, buch The Lovely Bones

„No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.“

—  Alice Sebold, buch Lucky

„Your first kiss is destiny knocking.“

—  Alice Sebold, buch The Lovely Bones

„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, buch The Lovely Bones

„Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.“

—  Alice Sebold, buch The Lovely Bones