Quotes by Alice Hoffman

Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

Never look back, that's what she's told herself. Don't think about swans or being alone in the dark. Don't think of storms, or lightning and thunder, or the true love you won't ever have. Life is brushing your teeth and making breakfast for your children and not thinking about things. 

What do they know about love? You make bargains you’d never imagine you’d agreed to, and you do it over and over again.

At first it seemed that he believed Sara would return, but as the years went by I understood that his loyalty asked for no reward, and that love comes in unexpected forms. 

Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night, that love was never wasted nor was it lost.

Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by.

You could tell she didn't want to, she was trying with all her might to hold it back, but sometimes it's impossible to do that. I know from personal experience. You have to turn yourself cold as ice in order to stop yourself, and then if anything falls from your eyes it will only be blue ice crystals, hard and unbreakable as stone.

- Quotes by Alice Hoffman