“What's the difference between love and obsession? Didn't both make you stay up all night, wandering the streets, a victim of your… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Love like this wasn't what he'd planned or wanted or expected, surely it was indeed a trap, for even when you tried… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eyes closed… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Do as you will, but harm no one. What you give will be returned to you threefold. Fall in love whenever you… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“For love changes everything and forces us into lives we never imagined we might lead” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“(Love) walks up to you,and when it does, you need to recognize it for what it is and, perhaps more important, for… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It had made her too helpless, because that's what love did. There was no way around it and no way to fight… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Love could do that to some people and they wouldn't even know much they'd missed out on; they simply remained in the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“You are my armor and my sword, my faith and my treasure, everything I'm fighting for.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought it merely happened, washing over you like water. It was… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Blue must be worn for protection. Moonstones were useful in connecting with the living, topaz to contact the dead. Copper, sacred to… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Love wasn't rational; there was no proof that it even existed outside of people's imaginings.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I cast myself at him, like a fool, but he didn't see me. And then one day he noticed I was beautiful… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in… — 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
