Quotes about Vulnerability
I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren't easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most of all.
- Alice Hoffman
I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?
- Alice Hoffman
I'd been bitten by a lion, but you had to look inside me to see the scar.
- Alice Hoffman
April certainly wasn't the first person to have fallen for Vincent, or the first to be wounded by his indifference. She'd been new and daring and exciting, but that had faded as time went on. Now she was just a girl who could easily be hurt.
- Alice Hoffman
What had she thought, that love was a toy, something easy and sweet, just to play with? Real love was dangerous, it got you from inside and held on tight, and if you didn't let go fast enough you might be willing to do anything for its sake.
- Alice Hoffman
You think terrible things can't happen because they've never happened to you, but they're out there, all the time, every day. They happen to someone.
- Alice Hoffman
There are sick people everywhere, in wheelchairs and on benches. Shelby is embarrassed to be so healthy.
- Alice Hoffman
she wanted to sit in the dark and whisper all of her fears into an ear which would hold every word like a silver shell.
- Alice Hoffman
She had the ability to spot a liar, except for the lies spoken by someone she loved. That's what had caught her up; she'd been distracted by love, which seemed, at least at the time, to be the truest thing in the world.
- Alice Hoffman
He told me he wanted the chance to be in love again. He has no idea that being in love is bullshit. It's knowing someone down to their soul that matters. That's what love is. It's difficult and it's real and it doesn't change.
- Alice Hoffman
Some people grow weak when they are victimized, others grow stronger, and still others combine those two attributes to become dangerous, even if the person in question is a girl who has recently turned twelve.
- Alice Hoffman
That politicians who smiled at us and kissed our babies blue eyes shining with triumph well knew we were falling into our graves kicked by them as they counted our votes.
- Alice Walker