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The Lovely Bones | Selected Quotes: Snapshots, Chapters 17-20

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1. "I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found a way to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it."

Taking pictures is one of the many ways time is stopped in The Lovely Bones. It is tragic because one can't stop time, and it is ironic because Mr. Harvey also tries to freeze time and hold on to it, with his memories of women.

2. "I would lay these photographs down in my mind, those gathered from my constant watching, and I could trace how one thing—my...


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