Wednesday, May 21, 2008

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

  • Nothing is ever certain.
  • The truth was that the line between the living and the dead could be, it seemed, murky and blurred.
  • A father's suspicion is as powerful as a mother's intuition.
  • If you stop asking why you were killed instead of someone else, stop investigating the vacuum left by your loss, stop wondering what everyone left on Earth is feeling, you can be free. Simply put, you have to give up on Earth.
  • You were treated special and, later, something horrible would be told to you.
  • Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.
  • Whoosh and you can start over again. Or was life more like the horrible game in gym that has you running from one side of an enclosed space to another, picking up and setting down wooden blocks without end?

5/18/2005

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