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 SeboldAll you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.
Alice Sebold"When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?"
Alice SeboldMurderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
Alice SeboldShe liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.
Alice Sebold