The Lovely Bones Quotes

“Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it. The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, "Don't worry, Susie; he has a nice life. He's trapped in a perfect world.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant
gone.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“At fourteen my sister sailed away from me into a place I'd never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.”
― Alice Sebold

“He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“Stones and bones;
snow and frost;
seeds and beans and polliwogs.
Paths and twigs, assorted kisses,
We all know who Daddy misses!
His two little frogs of girls, that’s who.
They know where they are, do you, do you?”
― Alice Sebold

“Samuel walked out to Lindsey then, and there she was in his arms, my sweet butterball babe, born ten years after my fourteen years on Earth: Abigail Suzanne. Little Susie to me. Samuel placed Susie on a blanket near the flowers. And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.”
― Alice Sebold , The Lovely Bones