The Lovely Bones Chapter 1 Quotes
The Lovely Bones Chapter 1 Quotes
How we cite the quotes:
Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote 7
I had been kissed once by someone I had liked. (1.76)
That kiss with Ray was the extent of Susie's sexual experience before Mr. Harvey.
Quote 8
I can still see the hole like it was yesterday, and it was. Life is a perpetual yesterday for us. (1.39)
At the end, we learn that Susie is telling her story from wide wide Heaven. So, it seems the hole is forever stamped in her memory. Now that she knows eternal time, the hole is both eternally far and eternally near her in time.