Please don't let Daddy die Susie," he whispered. "I need him. by Alice Sebold

Please don't let Daddy die Susie," he whispered. "I need him.

Alice Sebold

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You save yourself or you remain unsaved. by Alice Sebold

You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

save-yourself

Your first kiss is destiny knocking. by Alice Sebold

Your first kiss is destiny knocking.

first-kiss destiny kissing

You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.

girl hate beautiful

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

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

growth comfort heaven

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need t... by Alice Sebold

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

loses garden needs

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even... by Alice Sebold

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

destiny dream inspiring

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

flower real life

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

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

lovely-bones salmon love-you

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.

gowns mother night

Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.

weirdness conformity firsts

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.

pain flower real

Who would have thought something that happened that long ago coul... by Alice Sebold

Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?

long-ago happened long

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

lovely-bones father children

There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war. by Alice Sebold

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

conditions states war

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.

bones cameras way

Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it. The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, "Don't worry, Susie; he has a nice life. He's trapped in a perfect world.

nice father fall

Nothing is ever certain. by Alice Sebold

Nothing is ever certain.

certain death

I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in mag... by Alice Sebold

I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.

black hair promise

Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frig... by Alice Sebold

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

murderer monsters men

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.

lovely connections events