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Quotes from Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.
~ Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.
~ Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
I was like I was in science class: I was curious.
~ Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.
~ Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.
~ Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
This little girl's grown up by now, " she said.Almost.Not quite.I wish you all a long and happy life.
~ Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?
~ Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
He would find his Susie, inside his young son. Give that love to the living.
~ Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
~ Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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, The Lovely Bones