When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always. Alice Hoffman More Quotes by Alice Hoffman More Quotes From Alice Hoffman Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else? Alice Hoffman losing-everything life mean Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them. Alice Hoffman stories wanted forget He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find. Alice Hoffman pain want men That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife. Alice Hoffman cutting mother thinking Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows. Alice Hoffman waking-life waking sorrow Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you. Alice Hoffman fronts knows dream I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty and devotion, even though my eyes were closed, and all that surrounded me was a darkened room. I wrote because that was who I was at the core, and if I was too damaged to walk around the block, I was lucky all the same. Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible. Alice Hoffman block loyalty real What men yearn for they often destroy. Alice Hoffman men Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be. Alice Hoffman serpent wise may The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole. Alice Hoffman heart love-is giving She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future. Alice Hoffman busy steps forget ...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not. Alice Hoffman pretending crime worst Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon. Alice Hoffman dog baby lying I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them. Alice Hoffman tales fairy-tale feels One of my favorites is "Time and Again" by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book. Alice Hoffman back-and-forth manhattan book I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up. Alice Hoffman growing-up decision thinking What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk or a gate could just appear in a wall. I think fairy tales are so psychological. Alice Hoffman wall magic thinking Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors. Alice Hoffman rays my-favorite people I feel like my eyes are killing me at the end of the day and that I shouldn't use them. Alice Hoffman the-end-of-the-day eye use I'm a really eclectic reader. Alice Hoffman eclectic reader
