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Love Quotes by Alice Hoffman

97 Love quotes by Alice Hoffman

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A vision of love drifting like clouds shows how love can feel fleeting and beautiful. The quotes also suggest love never feels like a regret, even when knowledge feels dangerous. They mention cats preferred over people and the idea that love can be a dream you only understand when it’s right in front of you.

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Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.

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“Love more, her aunt had said. Not less.”

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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.

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Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by

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“Don't waste time when there's someone you love.”

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“Know that the only remedy for love is to love more.”

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I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.

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What else is there to write about than love and loss?

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He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

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“She preferred cats to human beings and turned down every offer from the men who fell in love with her.”

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Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.

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“This was the way love walked in, barely dressed, confused, panic-stricken, overcome, not caring what anyone thought or what they believed.”

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“How had love come to this? This twisted dark place. The phone calls, the fear, the look on his face when he…

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“For love changes everything and forces us into lives we never imagined we might lead”

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“That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.”

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“But children can tell when love has been lost, they know when silence means peace and when it's a sign of despair.”

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Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking…

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Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss,…

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“He knew exactly how to hit a woman, so that the marks hardly showed. He knew how to kiss her, too, so…

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The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get…

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“Fourth time's the charm," she says to people who ask her what the secret of a happy marriage is, but that's not…

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“Love could do that to some people and they wouldn't even know much they'd missed out on; they simply remained in the…

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The only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep,those haunted by one thing or another:love thwarted, love lost, love…

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“Because love is an act of will. You think it will just happen, but you have to make it so. Even when…

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In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way…

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“Never look back, that's what she's told herself. Don't think about swans or being alone in the dark. Don't think of storms,…

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“When Juliet came flying down the hallway, Stella didn't recognize her friend. Juliet hadn't bothered with makeup; she was wearing a nightgown…

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Everything was red, the air, the sun, whatever I looked at. Except for him. I fell in love with someone who was…

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Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge…

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“All the same, there were some things they needed to learn. Do not drink milk after a thunderstorm, for it will certainly…

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I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment.…

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“This was the purest instant he had ever experienced; the way he felt inside right then. If he had to be trapped…

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“Blue must be worn for protection. Moonstones were useful in connecting with the living, topaz to contact the dead. Copper, sacred to…

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“What's the difference between love and obsession? Didn't both make you stay up all night, wandering the streets, a victim of your…

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“She knew it the way people say they know they are about to be hit by lightning, yet remain powerless to run,…

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“Love has made him surprise himself. He would never have believed it possible, but it's turned out that he is a man…

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“Those boys at the counter are too dreamy and young to do anything but drool as they watch Gillian. And, to her…

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“You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go- into pieces, into atoms, into…

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“Some things you carry around inside you as though they were part of your blood and bones, and when that happens, there’s…

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“The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.…

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This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

“She preferred cats to human beings and turned down every offer from the men who fell in love with her.”

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“Her vision was going, but she could see him, the way people see clouds-beautiful, racing by, casting shadows.”

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There…

“...the summer of the gypsy moths when all the trees in their yard were bare, the leaves chewed by caterpillars. You could hear crunching…

“The best way to die is when you're living.”

“Haylin was given a good talking-to by the headmaster and made to write a paper about workers’ rights, which he considered a privilege rather…

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage."…