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

“Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.”

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

“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.”

“She smiled. “Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao.”

“Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.”

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”

“One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”

“Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.”

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”