"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 ..."
- Alice Sebold
"Life is a perpetual yesterday for us."
"You save yourself or you remain unsaved."
"Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living."
"My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered."
"Nothing is ever certain."
"After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at m..."
"I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death."
"He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living."
"There were also the Masters of Arcane Knowledge. Everyone begrudged their presence among the gifteds. These were the kids that could break down an engine and build it back again - no diagrams or instr..."