Alice Sebold
Alice Sebold
Alice Seboldis an American writer. She has published three books: Lucky, The Lovely Bones, and The Almost Moon...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth6 September 1963
CityMadison, WI
CountryUnited States of America
dynamic hard relationship work
We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent.
comics mostly
I went to church irregularly and was mostly reading comics in the pew.
gradually
I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet.
calling harder might work
I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.
save-yourself
You save yourself or you remain unsaved.
missing-someone forever missing
I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever.
swings land rope
Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn’t calculate my steps. I didn’t have time for contemplation. In violence it is the getting out that you concentrate on. When you begin to go over the edge, life receding from you as a boat recedes inevitably from the shore, you hold on to death tightly, like a rope that will transport you, and you swing out on it, hoping to land away from where you are.
ruth medical patches
Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
quilts hands color
So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything.
quilts humble hands
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble and grand. The word my grandfather uses is comfort. So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything. Give no story. Make no claim. Where you can live at the edge of your skin for as long as you wish.
medicine different poison
Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions