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
“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
That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I knew that my brother would still be a part of this world no matter what happened next. I felt my love… — 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 ever put your arms out and spin really, really fast ? Well, that's what loves like. It makes your heart race.… — 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
“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 like this was all consuming. I found that I was jealous of the strangest things - sunlight, streets, curtains, even 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 the… — 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
“Love is ancient and mysterious and you can't mess with it. If you do it just backfires and you meet with disaster.” — 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
“A fortuneteller at a magicians' convention in Atlantic City once told him that when he fell in love it would be forever,… — 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
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
“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
“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
“But can you measure someone's love? I want to know. You think you can measure love? She's kind not to laugh at… — 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
There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary… — 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
