“She said she wanted a man like that, someone who understood sorrow, not someone who caused it.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into… — 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
I could hardly get a boy to look at me. All right, they'd look, they'd even take me out, but no one… — 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
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
Before she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on the countertop, then hooped his fingers… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Young Sally Owens: He will hear my call a mile away. He will whistle my favorite song. He can ride a pony… — 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
