Alice Sebold - Earth Quotes

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The earth has a mouth? Buckley asked. A big round mouth but with no lips, my father said. Jack, my mother said, laughing, stop it. Do you know I caught him outside growling at the snapdragons?

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

My grandmother stepped back into the kitchen to get their drinks. I had come to love her more after death than I ever had on Earth. I wish I could say that in that moment in the kitchen she decided to quit drinking, but I now saw that drinking was a part of what made her who she was. If the worst of what she left on Earth was a legacy of inebriated support, it was a good legacy in my book.

Alice Sebold