“My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from Green Angel
“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.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from Green Angel
“She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from Green Angel
“I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from Green Angel
“I understood wanting to forget. Things that made you remember cut like pieces of glass.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from Green Angel
“No one called out my name. Finally, I went to open the door. I could smell burning metal.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from Green Angel
“One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her. She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from Green Angel
“I had lost my mother and my father and my sister, and sometimes when I caught a glimpse of myself in a shop window, I wondered if perhaps I hadn't lost myself as well”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from Green Angel
“I was making a different sort of heart, one that was black, one that was protected by thorns, by bats, by raven's wings, by sorrow, by my aloneness, my armour”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from Green Angel
“I thought about how it was impossible to forget, no matter how hard anyone might try.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from Green Angel
“If sparrows were meant to fly, and hawks to hunt, and greyhounds to run, then a boy such as Diamond was meant to search for his mother. If he didn't go, if he forgot or thought of himself first, then he wouldn't be Diamond.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from Green Angel
“I started to feel as though I were disappearing. Perhaps I myself was figment of my own imagination, a storm cloud, a wisp of smoke, a burning ember.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from Green Angel
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“Then like gravity, or maybe like magnets, our lips met again because they had to. And in that touch it felt like I was buried treasure he’d crossed seven seas to claim. I couldn’t feel the edges of my own body anymore; I was melting into his.”
― Cidney Swanson, quote from Rippler
“Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!”
― Allen Ginsberg, quote from Kaddish and Other Poems
“The baby intern scaled the walls of her crib and spent most of the weekend getting up to speed on the negotiations with Senecorp so you’d have it first thing this morning. You’ll find her sucking her thumb at Alice’s desk.”
― Joey W. Hill, quote from Hostile Takeover
“She replied that the manual labour exercised her body while allowing her mind and spirit to rest, adding that she believed there was value in the discipline of ordinariness, provided that it was only a discipline and not an unvarying state of being.”
― K.J. Bishop, quote from The Etched City
“So let me get this straight.”I rub my nose.“You've brought me out to hunt and kill animals with my bare hands?”A smile ghosts his face. He scratches his cheek. “Well teeth, but basically, yes.”Oh God. This is his idea of going out? No wonder he hasn't got a girlfriend.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from First Bitten
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