The Lovely Bones

"Holly said there was a wide, wide heaven beyond everything we knew. Where there was no cornfield, no memory, no grave... but I wasn't looking beyond yet, I was still looking back."

Lindsey: "It doesn't have a siren, you moron. It's a cement mixer."
Abigail: "Please don't call your brother a moron."

"You're the Salmon girl, right?"

Jack Salmon: "Is this all there is?"
Grandma Lynn: "Don't be ridiculous, that's just my makeup."

"I was in the blue horizon between heaven and earth. The days were unchanging and every night I dream the same dream. The smell of damp earth. The scream no one heard. The sound of my heart beating like a hammer against cloth and I would hear them calling, the voices of the dead. I wanted to follow them to find a way out but I would always come back to the same door. And I was afraid. I knew if I went in there I would never come out."

"You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going."

Len Fenerman: "Your father put a hole in the man's back door."
Lindsey Salmon: "Yeah, he should have put a hole in his head."

"I wasn't lost, or frozen, or gone... I was alive, I was alive in my own perfect world."