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.
("The Lovely Bones")
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After a few days in heaven, I realized that the javelin-throwers and the shot-putters and the boys who played basketball on the cracked blacktop were all in their own version of heaven. Theirs just fit with mine- didn't duplicate it precisely, but had a lot of the same things going on inside.Alice Sebold
Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had been a way, by touching, to borrow from the stronger one's strength.
Alice Sebold
Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.
Alice Sebold
And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
Alice Sebold
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.
Alice Sebold
If I had but an hour of love, if that be all that is given me, an hour of love upon this earth, I would give my love to thee.
Alice Sebold
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