All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.
Alice SeboldI was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined.
Alice SeboldI'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.
Alice SeboldIf I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.
Alice SeboldShe was unaware that she was somewhat of a celebrity up in heaven. I had told people about her, what she did, how she observed moments of silence up and down the city and wrote small individual prayers in her journal, and the story had travelled so quickly that women lined up to know she had found where theyโd been killed. She had fans in heaven..... Meanwhile, for us, she was doing important work, work that most people on Earth were too frightened even too contemplate.
Alice Sebold