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The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

Book by Alice Sebold · 13 quotes · Lovely Bones, Bones, Said

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“Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with and set the clipper ship free on its blue putty sea. And I would wait for him, recognizing the tension of that moment when the world in the bottle depended, solely, on me.”