Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones. — 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
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
“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
“For love changes everything and forces us into lives we never imagined we might lead” — 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
In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients. — 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
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
“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
“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 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
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
“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 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“Helplessness and anger make for predictable behavior: Children are certain to shove each other and pull hair, teenagers will call each other… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Somewhere there was a book of love, with all the symptoms written down in red ink: Dizziness and Desire. A tendency to… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Once I knew nothing about McKay and now I knew everything about him. This seemed as good as any reason for not… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Butter melting on a dish meant someone nearby was in love, and a bird in the house take your bad luck out… — 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
Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote. — 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
“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
“Only now did I realize what the hermit was telling me, that love was never a regret.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Will her husband love her?” “Would you want love you had to buy?” Isabelle asked.” — 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
Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs. — 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
Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last. — 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
Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
“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
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
“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
“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
This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
“She preferred cats to human beings and turned down every offer from the men who fell in love with her.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
“Her vision was going, but she could see him, the way people see clouds-beautiful, racing by, casting shadows.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
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
“...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
“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… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage."… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
