"The Lovely Bones" Quotes

Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.

The dead do talk. They have a language all their own.

Horror on earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.

When you're a kid, they tell you it's all... grow up, get a job, get married, get a house, have a kid, and that's it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.

There wasn't a lot of bullshit in Heaven.

I was in my own perfect world, where nothing could go wrong, and I didn't realize how much I loved it until it was gone.

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is.

The living deserve attention, too. Their lives are a journey, and you have to watch and help them along the way.

I had loved him so much, and we had loved each other. But we had been letting each other down, and it wasn't for lack of love.

There's no taking back what you've said if it's been heard. You can't unsay words that have made people feel something.