Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

Quotes

• “Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.”
• “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.”
• “I was like I was in science class: I was curious.”
• “Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.”
• “Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.”
• “Nothing is ever certain.”