Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones. — 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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real… Once I got to my… — 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
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
“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
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
Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who… — 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
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
