A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man. Alice Hoffman More Quotes by Alice Hoffman More Quotes From Alice Hoffman You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil. Alice Hoffman ridiculousevilarguing I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws? Alice Hoffman lionessteethwonder My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father. Alice Hoffman brothermotherfather Love was like rain: it turned into ice, or it disappeared. Now you saw it, now you couldn't find it no matter how hard you might search. Love evaporated; obsession was realer; it hurt, like a pin in your bottom, a stone in your shoe. It didn't go away in the blink of an eye. A morning phone call filled with regret. A letter that said, Dear you, good-bye from me. Obsession tasted like something familiar. Something you'd known your whole life. It settled and lurked; it stayed with you. Alice Hoffman broken-hearthurtmorning I can't really work on more than one thing at a time Alice Hoffman one-thing-at-a-timeone-thingi-can After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction Alice Hoffman realwritingcharacter I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss? Alice Hoffman halloweendreamwriting You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this Alice Hoffman beautifulmeaningfuljobs A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten. Alice Hoffman sorrowdoneblood Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common. Alice Hoffman outsidersindividualitycommon What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls. Alice Hoffman soulnamesrose That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats. Alice Hoffman sweatershookhouse It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found. Alice Hoffman understandingfoundlost No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time. Alice Hoffman movementstrongenough Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold. Alice Hoffman missing-youbeautifuli-miss-you In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars. Alice Hoffman seniorstarsreal I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed. Alice Hoffman i-can-do-iteyehurt Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words. Alice Hoffman would-bewayworld Young Sally Owens: He will hear my call a mile away. He will whistle my favorite song. He can ride a pony backwards. Young Gillian Owens: What are you doing? Young Sally Owens: Summoning up a true love spell called Amas Veritas. He can flip pancakes in the air. He'll be marvelously kind. And his favorite shape will be a star. And he'll have one green eye and one blue. Young Gillian Owens: Thought you never wanted to fall in love. Young Sally Owens: That's the point. The guy I dreamed of doesn't exist. And if he doesn't exist I'll never die of a broken heart. Alice Hoffman falling-in-lovestarssong Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories. Alice Hoffman secretstoriesmen
