Alice Hoffman - Life Quotes

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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
I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

Alice Hoffman
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
This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

Alice Hoffman
I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.

Alice Hoffman
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
How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I'd had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.

Alice Hoffman
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
Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

Alice Hoffman
I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.

Alice Hoffman