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41 " Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained. "
― Alice Sebold , The Lovely Bones
42 " Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn’t mean the weaker one doesn’t love the stronger. "
43 " Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time. "
44 " This is just a temporary hell, not a permanent one "
45 " I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand "
― Alice Sebold , Lucky
46 " Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman. "
47 " I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it. "
48 " Your first kiss is destiny knocking. "
49 " 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? "
50 " I fell in love with you again; While you were away - Jack Salmon "
51 " And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be. "
52 " His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother for everything -- for her brokenness and her fleeing, for her being there right then in that moment before the sun rose and the hospital staff came in. It was about touching that hair with the side of his fingertip, and knowing yet plumbing fearlessly the depths of her ocean eyes. "
53 " I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death. "
54 " The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak of a chill in the air. The mates of the deceased wake from dreams and see a figure standing at the end of thier bed, or in a doorway, or boarding, phantomlike, a city bus. "
55 " 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. "
56 " Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us? "
57 " The living deserve attention, too "
58 " I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines. "
59 " There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child. "
60 " The moon is whole all the time, but we can’t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest is hiding just out of view, but there’s only one moon, so we follow it in the sky. We plan our lives based on its rhythms and tides. "
― Alice Sebold , The Almost Moon