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“The moon is whole all the time, but we can’t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest is hiding just out of view, but there’s only one moon, so we follow it in the sky. We plan our lives based on its rhythms and tides.”

Alice Sebold kniha The Almost Moon

“There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.”

Alice Sebold kniha The Lovely Bones

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

Alice Sebold kniha The Lovely Bones

“He had been my almost. My might-have-been.

I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss.

Still, I collected kiss stories.

-Susie Salmon”

Alice Sebold kniha The Lovely Bones

“I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss it away, but he didn't want to look at me anymore, either.”

Alice Sebold kniha The Lovely Bones

“But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone.”

Alice Sebold kniha The Lovely Bones

“She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.”

Alice Sebold

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

Alice Sebold kniha Lucky

“Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: "She’s never coming home." A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone who had ever known me had accepted. But he needed to say it, and she needed to hear him say it.”

Alice Sebold kniha The Lovely Bones

“Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go”

Alice Sebold kniha The Lovely Bones

“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.”

Alice Sebold kniha Lucky

“I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. -Susie Salmon”

Alice Sebold kniha The Lovely Bones

“A father's suspicion…' she began.
Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.'


~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon”

Alice Sebold kniha The Lovely Bones

“I left my mark on that man.”

Alice Sebold kniha The Lovely Bones

“She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.”

Alice Sebold kniha The Lovely Bones

“People grow up by living.”

Alice Sebold kniha The Lovely Bones

“All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.”

Alice Sebold kniha The Lovely Bones

“If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.”

Alice Sebold kniha Lucky

“Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.”

Alice Sebold kniha The Lovely Bones

“Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to.”

Alice Sebold

“The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away. But when people left they always came back.”

Alice Sebold kniha The Lovely Bones

“Do you miss Susie?"
Because it was dark, because Ruth was facing away from her, because Ruth was almost a stranger, Lindsey said what she felt.
"More than anyone will ever know.”

Alice Sebold kniha The Lovely Bones

“As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag.”

Alice Sebold kniha The Lovely Bones

“I wish you all a long and happy life”

Alice Sebold kniha The Lovely Bones

“Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family will not follow. A language they do not speak.”

Alice Sebold kniha Lucky

“After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.”

Alice Sebold kniha Lucky

“You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going.”

Alice Sebold

“He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.”

Alice Sebold kniha The Lovely Bones

“Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.”

Alice Sebold kniha The Lovely Bones