Life Quotes Quote by Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“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.”

“Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.”

“Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.”

“It doesn’t matter how smart you are or what you know; if you learn to put those two things together, to let your pain drive your talent, you can become the best at anything you do in life.”

“The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.”

“Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.”

““For one day there will be nothing left, yet we will have something. -me-”

“Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.”