She wasn't actually speaking to me, she was singing a kind of lullaby of talk. But, eventually, the music stopped.
Alice SeboldTags: music
His cruelty was in his absence.
Alice SeboldThere wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.
Alice SeboldTags: afterlife funny life-quotes
If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.
Alice SeboldI wondered if this longing in a three-year-old had sparked what came at eight. That fuzzy feeling of difference, that her crushes on female teachers or her cousin were more real than the other girls' crushes. Hers contained a desire beyond sweetness and attention, it fed a longing, beginning to flower green and yellow into a crocuslike lust, the soft petals opening into her awkward adolescence. It was not so much, she would write in her journal, that she wanted to have sex with women, but that she wanted to disappear inside of them forever. To hide.
Alice SeboldAll you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.
Alice SeboldAbout Grandma Lynn: She was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. At seventy, she had come to believe in time alone.
Alice SeboldHeaven is comfort, but it's still not living.
Alice SeboldTags: inspirational family murder personal-growth rape haunting imaginative
What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child
Alice SeboldTags: family murder heaven personal-growth rape agterlife pergatory
I focused very hard on the dead geranium in his line of vision. I thought if I could make it bloom he would have his answer. In my heaven it bloomed. In my heaven geranium petals swirled in eddies up to my waist. On Earth nothing happened... I stood alone in a sea of bright petals.
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