Quotes from Alice Hoffman

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

If there be a cure, seek till you find it. If there be none, never mind it.

I only had access to him when we were together in the library, and I loved them both -the library and my father- equally and without question.

and from then on whenever he smells lilacs he'll think about this moment. How the bees were circling above him, how purple the ink on the leaflets he's been distributing suddenly seemed, how he realized, all at once, just how beautiful a woman can be.

Just know that what's done can be undone, but what's undone can never again be.

See a charmer and you're bound to see a snake nearby

A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.

Love like this was all consuming. I found that I was jealous of the strangest things - sunlight, streets, curtains, even her clothing, anything that was close to her.

She preferred cats to human beings and turned down every offer from the men who fell in love with her.

Some people grow weak when they are victimized, others grow stronger, and still others combine those two attributes to become dangerous

She had lost some of who she was when she lost her beloved.

People will disappoint you with their cruelty every time

and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.

She said she wanted a man like that, someone who understood sorrow, not someone who caused it.

The stars are reflected from within the black water in the cistern. I find comfort in the omen I glean from this: light in the darkness, truth when it seems there is none.

The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild irises... that the color of the sky was a shade that could never be replicated in any photograph, just as Heaven could never be seen from the confines of Earth.

But what you give up you can learn to live without, even if it causes you heartbreak at the start.

You know who you are. And I suggest you never deny it.

He has stumbled into love, and now he's stuck there. He's fairly used to not getting what he wants, and he's dealt with it, yet he can't help but wonder if that's only because he didn't want anything too badly.

Certain things need not be said, and there's nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what's about to happen.

But try as you might to protect people from danger, you cannot keep them from their true nature.

Don't make me sit through reality.

Feelings are best left concealed. They can bite you if you're not careful. They can eat you alive.

Franny entwined her legs with his. She understood why ancient monsters were often made of two creatures, with two hearts and minds. There was strength in such a combination of opposites.