Quotes about Acceptance
Love was never a mistake, even when it wasn't returned.
- Alice Hoffman
You cannot unwrite a death that has been written.
- Alice Hoffman
I take responsibility for the man I used to be, for I carry him with me. As strong as I am, he's a heavy burden
- Alice Hoffman
And what of monsters? Can they love too? We know quite well they can. For we know that they do.
- Alice Hoffman
just do the best I can to face what life brings. That's the secret, you know. That's the way you change your fate.
- Alice Hoffman
You lose people sometimes, you know. You don't expect to, but then it happens and you can't get them back.
- Alice Hoffman
A lot of people don't know what to do about grief. I don't blame you for a thing.
- Alice Hoffman
You were a boy. Life is a mess, that's what Isabelle told me when I decided to have the child, but all we can do is live it.
- Alice Hoffman
Love was never a mistake, even when it wasn't returned. It was not unlike the phlox in Catherine Avery's garden, untended, ignored, but there all the same.
- Alice Hoffman
you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is no longer your own.
- Alice Hoffman
There are sick people everywhere, in wheelchairs and on benches. Shelby is embarrassed to be so healthy.
- Alice Hoffman
what you give up you can learn to live without, even if it causes you heartbreak at the start. Whether you are mortal or not, you go on, even if sorrow nags
- Alice Hoffman