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 Remember what I've told you. Remember me. Alice Hoffman remember-me remember Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next place and the next place and the place after that? You run once, what makes you think you won't have to run all the rest of your life?... We love moment to moment... Everything changes. One minute we are part of the river, and the next we are joined with the sea. Alice Hoffman should-have running thinking I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect. Alice Hoffman cold grandmother perfect Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It was the first thing that freed you and the thing that put you in peril. It was the key to the ten gates. I saw them clearly now, each and every one, the gates that were there for me. Ashes, Bones, Grass, Heart, Stone, Love, Sorrow, Blood, Earth, Sky. Alice Hoffman keys heart blood I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death. Alice Hoffman saws pride secret Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. The ever after, what precisely was that? Your dreams, your life, your death, your everything. Was it the blank space that went on without us? The forever after we were gone? Alice Hoffman space dream mean When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our friendship. Now I was the girl who'd stolen Andres; the girl who'd lied to her about who I was. Therefore, she owned me nothing. Alice Hoffman girl different together It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now. Alice Hoffman settling desert ifs Abra DeMadrigal didn't look young enough to be my sister anymore. Her sorrow weighed her down and aged her. She was still beautiful, but she looked very far away. No wonder our people had raven eyes, so distant, so sad. No matter how wise she was, my mother looked like a woman who hadn't truely believed how much evil there was in our world. Not until this moment. Alice Hoffman wise mother beautiful My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible. Alice Hoffman overwhelmed grandmother past And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal. Alice Hoffman hatred done ideas I thought you were supposed to be the champion of your people,' I said. I live because I need to do that. For anyone who is left.' Don't you see? No one will be left. Protect them now or there will be no one to protect!' This is a battle that goes on and on. It never ends. You're too young to understand. No! You're too much of a coward to fight.' I was sick of lies and secrets and of battles so old we had to erase who we were to fight back. And still we lost. Still we were tied to posts. Alice Hoffman fighting lying people 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 would be no gates at all. Alice Hoffman garden would-be easy Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning. Alice Hoffman pages-turning reading people He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say. Alice Hoffman book looks way What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree. Alice Hoffman tables might men If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am. Alice Hoffman daughter stars dream Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people. Alice Hoffman community people school What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong. Alice Hoffman dream believe people Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner. Alice Hoffman mother people looks
