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(in a voiceover introducing herself to the audience) "My name is Salmon, like the fish. My first name is Susie. I was 14 years old when I was murdered on December 6th, 1973." - Susie Salmon , The Lovely Bones
(telling the audience how her grandma told her that she would live a long life after she saved her brother) "Grandma Lynn predicted that I would live a long and happy life because I had saved my brother. As usual, Grandma Lynn was wrong." - Susie Salmon , The Lovely Bones
(talking about how she felt when she died) "I was slipping away, that's what it felt like. Life was leaving me but I wasn't afraid. My last memory there was something I was meant to do, there was somewhere I was meant to be. " - Susie Salmon , The Lovely Bones
(thinking to herself) "It's OK, it's gonna be OK. He knows I'm here, my Dad knows I'm here. I was still with him, I wasn't lost or frozen or gone, I was alive. I was alive in my own perfect world." - Susie Salmon , The Lovely Bones
(thinking about her Dad) "I knew then, he would never give me up. He would never count me as one of the dead. I was his daughter and he was my Dad and he loved me as much as he could. I have to let him go." - Susie Salmon , The Lovely Bones
(summing up her experience) "These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence. The connection sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost but also magnificent. It happened after I was gone and I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it." - Susie Salmon , The Lovely Bones
(watching her mother finally entering her room) "When my mother came to my room I realized that all of this time I had been waiting for her. I have been waiting so long and I was afraid that she wouldn't come. Nobody notices when we leave, I mean the moment when we really choose to go. At best he might feel the whisper or the wave of a whisper undulating down. My name is Salmon, like the fish." - Susie Salmon , The Lovely Bones