Alice Sebold Quotes

Oh, Mrs. Churchill, do come over, someone has killed father.

I am deeply saddened to hear that the man who murdered my brother, Michael Ensley, has been charged with murder again. I grieve for every family who has been victimized by this heinous individual. My prayers and love go out to the family of Demetra Doyle Heard during this trying time.

In 'Last to Die,' three children living in different cities are the only survivors when their families are slaughtered. Two years later, their foster families are murdered, and these three orphans are once again the only survivors.

When someone dies instantly, then I think the well of grief and disbelief all mixed in with it is unfathomable. And when murder is involved, that just takes it into a whole new place. There is an extra dimension you just can't compute or deal with.

The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.

I was there the night John Lennon was shot, three blocks away. It left a lasting impression on me.

I died on that mountain, too. I left a part of myself up there.

It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

People often ask me what happened to my first husband? And I say, I killed him.

A girl my age had been murdered in these woods and I'd seen her last terrified moments, watched her bleed to death in this forest. A life like mine had ended here, and it didn't matter how many times I'd seen deaths in movies, it wasn't the same, and I wasn't ever going to forget it.

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.

I lost my brother in a car wreck when I was 14 years old. When I decided I wanted to be a country singer, my dad always told me, 'Son, you should write a song about your brother.'

Blood and death. That moves me.

When I was 12 years old, my father was killed. I lost a loved one to violence. The pain was because I lost my father. It didn't matter that he was an officer... It shaped my life. If anything, it made me a strong advocate for the victims of violence.

My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.

I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second.

To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.

The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

Behind every crime is a story of sadness.