Alice Sebold, Lucky
6 quotes
"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 me for reasons I remain unsure of."
"I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death."
"Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly."
"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."
"No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved."
"In the tunnel where I was raped, a tunnel that was once an underground entry to an amphitheater, a place where actors burst forth from underneath the seats of a crowd, a girl had been murdered and dismembered. I was told this story by the police. In comparison, they said, I was lucky."