And there she was, alone and walking out in the cornfield while everyone else I cared for sat together in one room. She would always feel me and think of me. I could see that, but there was no longer anything I could do. Ruth had been a girl haunted and now she would be a woman haunted. First by accident and now by choice. All of it, the story of my life and death, was hers if she chose tot ell it, even to one person at a time.
Alice SeboldLearn 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 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 SeboldThe moon is whole all the time, but we canโt always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest is hiding just out of view, but thereโs only one moon, so we follow it in the sky. We plan our lives based on its rhythms and tides.
Alice SeboldLike snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before
Alice Sebold