Quotes from Alice Hoffman

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

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

Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.

Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.

The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.

Know that the only remedy for love is to love more.

Do as you will, but harm no one. What you give will be returned to you threefold. Fall in love whenever you can.

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.

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.

I didn't want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.

Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.