Quotes About Lovely Bones

#1. In the case of 'The Lovely Bones,' I felt that it was subject matter not often dealt with in film, and with a tone that is also rare.

Peter Jackson

#2. I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.

Karin Slaughter

#3. I did get upset once, when we were hiking between pitches 15 and 16. Two women and a dog were trying to find their way down through the maze of trails below the First Summit and they asked us: 'Are you on the trail?' I let my indignity show: 'NO, we're on a CLIMB!'

Andy Cairns

#4. He took the hat from my mouth. 'Tell me you love me', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway

Alice Sebold

#5. I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.

Dick Dale

#6. I have a really high bar for being angry. Like, it doesn't even happen every year.

Joel Stein

#7. Hey, Ocean Eyes," my father said. "Where'd you go on us?

Alice Sebold

#8. Beulah, peel me a grape

Mae West

#9. She has soft, delicate features, high cheek bones, a full mouth and pretty wide-set eyes. She's lovely.

Anonymous

#10. With that much meat on her bones, we can have the whole family over for Thanksgiving this year." Dreadful holiday, that Thanksgiving. Condoning the slaughter of lovely birds.

Eve Langlais

#11. I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.

Alice Sebold

#12. Well, as my dad would say, it means she's out of this shithole.

Alice Sebold

#13. In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.

Cynthia Rylant

#14. What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant
gone.

Alice Sebold

#15. If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

Gabrielle Union

#16. How can I be expected to be trapped for the rest of my life by a man frozen in time?

Alice Sebold

#17. Chaos, when left alone, tends to multiply.

Stephen Hawking

#18. Factory farming is terrible for the environment - not to mention that it's gross. The best thing you can do, if you think about it, is to become a vegetarian and just spread the word. The world would change for the better for animals, humans, and the planet if everyone took that step.

Christofer Drew

#19. Above the front door the fanlight glowed blue, delicate as wing-bones.

Tana French

#20. I was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard.

Charles Bukowski

#21. At fourteen my sister sailed away from me into a place I'd never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows.

Alice Sebold

#22. From I Knew a Woman
I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!

Theodore Roethke

#23. When he had explained why investors who wanted low risk and moderate returns should put their capital into national debt shares, Daisy had interrupted him by asking, Father, wouldn't it be wonderful if hummingbirds had tea parties and we were small enough to be invited?

Lisa Kleypas

#24. People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.

Patricia Briggs

#25. You're a mad scientist,' said Maggie, in what may well have been intended as a reassuring tone. 'We don't expect you to be nice. We just go to bed every night hoping you won't mutate us before we wake up.'
Dr. Abbey blinked at her. 'That's ... almost sweet. In a disturbing sort of a way.

Mira Grant