Aunt Quote by Alice Hoffman Download Open image ““Jet gave the blessing from the book of poems she had given her aunt.”” — Alice Hoffman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aunt Books Gave Blessing Given Aunt Jet Gave Poems Given Poetry
“Decades from now, my grandchild is going to be a poet... And she's going to write about how she's a living testament to how… — Danabelle Gutierrez Copy Share Image
“I remember what Anna called the three of us. The Pilot. The Poet. The Physic. They are in all of us. I believe this.… — ally condie Copy Share Image
“A great poet gives words wings to fly in the reader's perceptual sky.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“She remembered what hope was, and this was it. That inner churning that moves you forward, plows you through life the way the boats… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“It turned out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are the plane,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Birth, coupling, death. The more she thinks about it, the more it seems that that is all there is: a wheel turning over and… — Sarah Dunant Copy Share Image
“Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket. 'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I am merely… — Karen Tei Yamashita Copy Share Image
“On the best of days, he made her feel things she liked to shove deep, deep down, because going there with him would be… — Jill Shalvis Copy Share Image
“For all the things that had happened to her, all the people she had met, the miles of ocean she had covered, she could… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“poetry! Indeed, verses are the only thing that your letter lacks, Makar Alexievitch. And what tender feelings I can read in it—what roseate-coloured fancies!… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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
“My aunt Carol hasn’t heard her say a word in the whole six years and three months of Grace’s life—not a single syllable. Carol… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Your aunt and uncle will be proud, though, won't they?" said Hermione as they got off the train and joined the crowd thronging toward… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was painfully shy, so my aunt suggested to my mum that me and my brother go to Stage 84, a performing arts school… — Christian Cooke Copy Share Image
“Quin took on the air of someone who has just realized it's time for the yearly visit to the spinster great-aunt in a desperate… — Amy Fecteau Copy Share Image
“Aunt Helen Beck had many intentions about her death. She was about being dead the way some people are about being British - she… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
I'll just do a round around of the house and make sure the rest of the family are fast asleep. We don't want that… — Kerstin Gier Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1964, my sister and I went to South Ballston, Virginia, to stay with my aunt and her kids. They passed… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table,… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
