Alice Hoffman - Love Quotes

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I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought it merely happened, washing over you like water. It was nothing to search for, nothing to force. I didn't understand that even when we can't control our fate, we alone have the last say in matters of the heart. We can give it freely, even in the worst of times, even when it isn't returned.

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You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you're not really there.

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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.

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And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.

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He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

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The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.

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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.

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Being human means losing everything we love best in the world. But would you ask to be anything else?

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Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it like a flash of lightning? Like an angel tapping you on the shoulder? Or is it similar to choosing a puppy? You think you're picking the cutest one, but really you wind up going home with the one who keeps insisting on climbing into your lap.

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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.

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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.

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Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.

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There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.

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That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.

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When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.

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Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.

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Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss, the forgiveness. It came after you, it escaped you, it was invisible, it was everything.

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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.

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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.

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Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.

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Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.

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In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.

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Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.

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