Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“She preferred cats to human beings and turned down every offer from the men who fell in love with her.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“This was the way love walked in, barely dressed, confused, panic-stricken, overcome, not caring what anyone thought or what they believed.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“How had love come to this? This twisted dark place. The phone calls, the fear, the look on his face when he… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Sam said, Hey, you want to get high? Amy had taken his words to mean You are so beautiful I am undone… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Her vision was going, but she could see him, the way people see clouds-beautiful, racing by, casting shadows.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Fourth time's the charm," she says to people who ask her what the secret of a happy marriage is, but that's not… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“He knew exactly how to hit a woman, so that the marks hardly showed. He knew how to kiss her, too, so… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss,… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Because love is an act of will. You think it will just happen, but you have to make it so. Even when… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
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… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“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,… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Everything was red, the air, the sun, whatever I looked at. Except for him. I fell in love with someone who was… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“When Juliet came flying down the hallway, Stella didn't recognize her friend. Juliet hadn't bothered with makeup; she was wearing a nightgown… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“All the same, there were some things they needed to learn. Do not drink milk after a thunderstorm, for it will certainly… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment.… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“This was the purest instant he had ever experienced; the way he felt inside right then. If he had to be trapped… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“She knew it the way people say they know they are about to be hit by lightning, yet remain powerless to run,… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Love has made him surprise himself. He would never have believed it possible, but it's turned out that he is a man… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Those boys at the counter are too dreamy and young to do anything but drool as they watch Gillian. And, to her… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go- into pieces, into atoms, into… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Some things you carry around inside you as though they were part of your blood and bones, and when that happens, there’s… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Well, maybe that's what love is, as state of mind ready to grace anyone willing to accept it. Anyone who cares.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“All of the quarters in his hand were tarnished. He had no idea that the silver in a man’s pockets always turns black if… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It was after dark when the woods were most filled with magic, when there were fireflies and the mist was rising from the streams.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“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, or lightning… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“She preferred cats to human beings and turned down every offer from the men who fell in love with her.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Her vision was going, but she could see him, the way people see clouds-beautiful, racing by, casting shadows.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
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… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“...the summer of the gypsy moths when all the trees in their yard were bare, the leaves chewed by caterpillars. You could hear crunching… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
