Quotes from Alice Hoffman

I knew that my brother would still be a part of this world no matter what happened next. I felt my love for him so deeply that my blood seemed to flow down the street to him. My blood sang out my prayer for Luis even while he was still living in our world.

Love is ancient and mysterious and you can't mess with it. If you do it just backfires and you meet with disaster.

If we had no hurt and no sin to speak of, we'd be angels, and amgels can't love the way men and women do.

The truth was written upon us, as they say men's sins are written on their bones so that when they die their wicked deeds can be read as if written upon parchment.

He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had.

There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas and spelled out in contracts and poems and sighs, in old whispers and song lyrics, in promises and vows.

We must do as we're told, Ava reminded her. We will honor your mother and follow her instructions. Because she is your maker? Lea asked, her heart breaking. Ava shook her head. Because she is yours.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

Goodness, in their opinion, was not a virtue but merely spinelessness and fear disguised as humility.

All that will ever be has already been written long before it happens. There is nothing we can do to stop it.

But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind.

Franny whispered to Haylin all that she ever was and had been. She told him that she had always known what the future would be, and he said that if what she said was true, then she should have known a very long time ago that this was meant to be.