Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horr…

- Alice Sebold

You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.

- Alice Sebold

Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit…

- Alice Sebold

I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand

- Alice Sebold

How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.

- Alice Sebold

You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

- Alice Sebold

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

- Alice Sebold

Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.

- Alice Sebold

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

- Alice Sebold