The Lovely Bones

"I was slipping away, that's what it felt like, life was leaving me, but I wasn't afraid. Then I remembered, there was something I was meant to do, somewhere I was meant to be."

Buckley: "Are we still a family?"
Grandma Lynn: "Of course we're a family. Your mother's in crisis, your father's a wreck."
Lindsey: "What does that make you?"
Grandma Lynn: "I'm in charge."

"I remember being really small, too small to see over the edge of a table. There was a snow globe and I remember the penguin who lived inside the globe. He was all alone in there and I worried for him."

Ray Singh: "If I had but an hour of love,
If that be all that is given me,
An hour of love upon this earth, ..."
Susie Salmon: "...I would give my love to thee."

"My murderer could live in one moment for a long time. He could feed off the memory, over and over again. He was animal. Faceless. Infinite. But then he would feel it, the emptiness returning, and the need would rise in him again."

"When I was alive, I never hated anyone. But now hate was all that I had."

"Grandma Lynn predicted I would live a long life because I had saved my brother. As usual, Grandma Lynn was wrong."

Buckley: "Grandma? I know where Susie is."
Grandma Lynn: "Yeah, Susie's gone to heaven, sweetheart."
Buckley: "Lindsey said there is no heaven."
Grandma Lynn: "All right then, she's dead."
Buckley: "You might be dead soon."
Grandma Lynn: "Why do you say that?"
Buckley: "Because you're old."
Grandma Lynn: "35 is not old."