Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I have an hour count; sometimes I’m just happy to string a few words together. I do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get anything done.

— Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold Quotes

In moments like this she thought of all the little girls who grew into adulthood and old age as a sort of cipher alphabet for all those who didn’t. Their lives would somehow be inextricably attached to all the girls who had been killed.

— Alice Sebold

Sometimes cats fall ten flights out of the windows of highrises and land on their feet. You only believe it because you’ve seen it in print.

— Alice Sebold

These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors.

— Alice Sebold

When the dead are done with the living,” Franny said to me, “the living can go on to other things.

— Alice Sebold

People grow up by living. I want to live.

— Alice Sebold

She held on to two sides of an hourglass and wondered how this could be possible. The time she’d had alone had been gravitationally circumscribed by when her attachments would pull her back. And they had pulled now – doublefisted.

— Alice Sebold

I felt like observing my way out of there, but I didn’t.

— Alice Sebold

I was raised by a solitary woman to be a solitary child, and that was, I now saw, what I had hopelessly become.

— Alice Sebold

Ruth did not believe in makeup. She thought it demeaned women.

— Alice Sebold

My mother’s desire to reach those waves, touch her feet to another ocean on the other side of the country, was all she was thinking of – the pure baptismal goal of it. Whoosh and you can start all over again. Or was life more like the horrible game in gym that has you running from one side of an enclosed space to another, picking up and setting down wooden blocks without end?

— Alice Sebold

She had needed the time to know that this love would not destroy her, and I had, I now knew, given her that time, could give it, for it was what I had in great supply.

— Alice Sebold

Buckley kept the shoe on his dresser, until one day it wasn’t there anymore and no amount of looking for it could turn it up.

— Alice Sebold

I wish now that I had known this was weird.

— Alice Sebold

It was in these moments, I knew, that my father loved my mother most. When my mother was broken and helpless, when her hard shell was stripped away and her spite and brittleness couldn’t serve her. It was a sad dance of two people who were starving to death in each other’s arms. Their marriage an X that forever joined murderer to victim.

— Alice Sebold

I had begun to chase my husband as I had once chased my mother, toe to toe, a shadow girl trying to be what I thought they wanted me to be. I.

— Alice Sebold

He wore his own innocence like a comfortable old coat.

— Alice Sebold

The niggling idea of what she would do as Ray grew older and her husband worked increasingly long hours crept up the inside of her foot and along her calf to the back of her knee and began to climb into her lap.

— Alice Sebold

Confucius-says.

— Alice Sebold

So much in life is about almosts, not quites.

— Alice Sebold

Soon she noted that teachers in subjects besides gym didn’t report her if she cut. They were happy not to have her there: her intelligence made her a problem. It demanded attention and rushed their lesson plans forward.

— Alice Sebold
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