I could not imagine my youngest standing above her soiled grandmother in the wing chair and saying, "mother, let's kill her. "That's the only choice. - Alice Sebold
Oh sweetheart, do you really think if youseal it up, that the pain's gonna go away? - Alice Sebold
She wasn't actually speaking to me, she was singing a kind of lullaby of talk. But, eventually, the music stopped. - Alice Sebold
Try to breathe," he said, and for the first time the only thought in my head after an instruction like that wasn't Fuck you.I breathed. - Alice Sebold
You save yourself or you remain unsaved. - Alice Sebold
For me the saddest thing was that these animals smelled the brokenness in him – the human defect – and kept away. - Alice Sebold