"How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away."

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Source : Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.93, Pan Macmillan

Alice Sebold

#Games Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.”
“Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
“The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.”
“If I were rain, That joins sky and earth that otherwise never touch, Could I join two hearts as well?”
“What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next.”
“To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.”
“Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.”
“How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.”

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