Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away. Alice Hoffman More Quotes by Alice Hoffman More Quotes From Alice Hoffman Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait. Alice Hoffman cancermotherwaiting I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything. Alice Hoffman believelooksthinking Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am. Alice Hoffman who-i-amlifelying That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination. Alice Hoffman readingimaginationjoy What else is there to write about than love and loss? Alice Hoffman losswritinglove I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us Alice Hoffman fatebelievethinking Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help Alice Hoffman helpingbookart I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing Alice Hoffman fasterusewriting I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working Alice Hoffman languagewantwriting I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told. Alice Hoffman being-a-womanfairy-taleideas I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'. Alice Hoffman secretpeoplethinking I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned. Alice Hoffman fantasticrealthinking It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world. Alice Hoffman breakwayworld Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being. Alice Hoffman brokenwantheart That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it. Alice Hoffman invisiblewantedway I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand. Alice Hoffman motherwaterhands Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time! Alice Hoffman too-muchgonechildren Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. Alice Hoffman luckyforevermean You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you're not really there. Alice Hoffman shoppingmennight You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil. Alice Hoffman ridiculousevilarguing
