Alice Sebold Heaven Quotations

Almost everyone in heaven has someone on Earth they watch, a loved one, a friend or even a stranger who was once kind, who offered warm food or a bright smile when one of us had needed it. And when I wasn’t watching I could hear the others talking to those they loved on Earth: just as fruitlessly as me, I’m afraid. A one-sided card cajoling and coaching of the young, a one way loving and desiring of their mates, a single-sided card that could never get signed.

There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.

As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I had a choice, and it was not to divide my family in my heart.

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

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.