How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?

father worked behind closed doors inside the house, had a huge ancient Latin dictionary on a wrought-iron stand, spoke Spanish on the phone, and drank sherry and ate raw meat, in the form of chorizo, at five o’clock. Until the day in the yard with my

There are secret rooms inside us,” I had said to my therapist. “A relatively benign construct,” he said, and so I did not bother with the rest of it. That in my house we never left them, that in my house my mother and father preferred them to everywhere else.

Sometimes the dreams that came true are the dreams you never even knew you had

I was a soul back on Earth. AWOL a little while from heaven.

When he felt his heart hurt he turned into something stronger than a little boy, and he grew up this way. A heart that flashed from heart to stone, heart to stone.

There is no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.

Nikt nie może wyratować drugiego człowieka. Każdy musi ratować się sam albo jest stracony.

I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might-have-been, and I did not want to leave him any more than I did my family.

Alice Sebold

Quotes by Alice Sebold

Written By Alice Sebold

Written By Alice Sebold

Written By Alice Sebold

Written By Alice Sebold

Written By Alice Sebold

Written By Alice Sebold

Written By Alice Sebold

Written By Alice Sebold

Written By Alice Sebold

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