Ruydah

“The truth was that the line between the living and the dead could be, it seemed, murky and blurred.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“But I guess I never stopped wanting to be the smart boy she wanted me to be, so that she would love me”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“At some point, to counter the list of the dead, I had begun keeping my own list of the living... Sometimes I saw the wounded- those who had been beaten by husbands or raped by strangers, children raped by their fathers- and I would wish to intervene somehow.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones