Alice Sebold - Lost Quotes

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When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world worked and about how safe I was.

Alice Sebold

Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.

Alice Sebold

Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn't calculate my steps. I didn't have time for contemplation. In violence it is the getting out that you concentrate on. When you begin to go over the edge, life receding from you as a boat recedes inevitably from the shore, you hold on to death tightly, like a rope that will transport you, and you swing out on it, hoping to land away from where you are.

Alice Sebold

What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.

Alice Sebold