Quotes from Alice Sebold

I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.

I went to church irregularly and was mostly reading comics in the pew.

I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.

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.

I left my mark on that man.

I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. -Susie Salmon

A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon

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.

You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual understanding of why you want those things.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

This is just a temporary hell, not a permanent one

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

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

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