The evening had turned sweet and blue. Alice Hoffman More Quotes by Alice Hoffman More Quotes From Alice Hoffman But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself. Alice Hoffman important believe thinking I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays. Alice Hoffman twenties book years I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment. Now I knew how I would feel if I ever lost him. That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew. Alice Hoffman matter mother heart Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget. Alice Hoffman forever blood people Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them. Alice Hoffman wish remember thinking I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes. Alice Hoffman teenager growing-up kids The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't. Alice Hoffman wife people thinking Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done. Alice Hoffman riding done giving This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell. Alice Hoffman knowing soul earth Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still. Alice Hoffman hurt bird people Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were. And what we remember. Alice Hoffman mistake helping people The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild irises... that the color of the sky was a shade that could never be replicated in any photograph, just as Heaven could never be seen from the confines of Earth. Alice Hoffman blue sweet hands My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden. Alice Hoffman garden mother men Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot. Alice Hoffman sorrow fortune forever Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips. Alice Hoffman garden may sweet Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight. Alice Hoffman september air yellow I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself Alice Hoffman plot stories book Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story. Alice Hoffman real hair blood I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled Alice Hoffman home kids school Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote. Alice Hoffman possibility reality thinking
