"These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life."

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Source : The Lovely Bones ch. 23 (2002)

Alice Sebold

#Lovely Quotes #Gone Quotes #World Quotes

“True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind.”

Source : Isabella Rossellini (1997). “Some of Me”, Random House Incorporated
“Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.”
“Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.”
“I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy.”
“One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire feature film with my camera. I could already picture the projection screen making itself visible as a white rectangle. In my imagination, this would appear as a glowing, white rectangle; it would come forward from the projection surface and illuminate the entire theater. This idea struck me as being very interesting, mysterious, and even religious.”
“I personally like being a guy.”

Source : "Steve Lonegan Says It’s ‘Weird’ Cory Booker Won’t Refute Gay Rumors: ‘I Like Being A Guy’" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2013.
“If you think you can fall, you're more likely to.”
“... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.”

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