Alice Hoffman · 368 pages
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“(Love) walks up to you,and when it does, you need to recognize it for what it is and, perhaps more important, for what it might become.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“Eddie had come to understand that what a man saw and what actually existed in the natural world often were contradictory. The human eye was not capable of true sight, for it was constrained by its own humanness, clouded by regret, and opinion, and faith. Whatever was witnessed in the real world was unknowable in real time. It was the eye of the camera that captured the world as it truly was.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“You were the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all that we needed.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep it close or let it go. Fate was both what we were given and what we made for ourselves.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“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.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“Listen, and you'll hear a story being told, one you may need to know.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“People will disappoint you with their cruelty every time”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“... people can surprise you in so many ways, both with cruelty and with kindness.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“For love changes everything and forces us into lives we never imagined we might lead”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“A lifetime is a lifetime whether it lasts one night or a hundred years.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“It’s not finding what’s lost, it’s understanding what you’ve found.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“If you tried to right all the wrongs in the world you'd exhaust yourself in under an hour.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“Men are men, with all their flaws, as we have ours, that’s true, but the best among them manage to discover who we really are.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“Love like this wasn't what he'd planned or wanted or expected, surely it was indeed a trap, for even when you tried to run away, it followed you through the grass and lay down beside you, it overtook common sense and willpower.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“I knew that men told you the truth for one of two reasons: when they wished to be rid of what they couldn’t bear to carry, or when they wished to include you in what they knew so their stories wouldn’t be lost.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“... a man has many lives. Each day we chose the path we would take by our own actions... the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep it close or let it go. Fate was both what we were give and what we made for ourselves.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“Men will be men," Maureen told me when I wondered aloud where my father went in the evenings. "Don't complain," she advised. "That's how women find their freedom. When there's no one else at home.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“... the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep it close or let it go.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“The air was soft, as it often was in this lovely month, and Eddie inhaled its sweetness. He found himself uplifted as he worked, caught up in something outside himself and his petty wants and needs. The clouds drifted like ice in a tumbler. Through his lens the river seemed made of light, there was the shimmer, and for a moment the world seemed whole to him.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“The truth frightens people because it isn’t stable. It shifts every day. If you’d prefer to remain in the dark, I would understand.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“You know what love is?...It's what you least expect.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“Hochman had been right, the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep it close or let it go. Fate was both what we were given and what we made for ourselves.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“My father was both a scientist and a magician, but he declared that it was in literature wherein we discovered our truest natures.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“You are the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all we needed. For that, and for a thousand other things, I send my gratitude.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“When all was said and done, it was conceivable that a being's purpose remained the same throughout his life, and Eddie's purpose was exactly what it had been when he was a boy, to pursue the light and find what was lost."
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― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“And what of monsters? Can they love too? We know quite well they can. For we know that they do.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“You are the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all we needed.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“In good time every secret must be shared and every miracle called into question.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Museum of Extraordinary Things
Alice Hoffman
Born place: in New York, New York, The United States
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“I have to go home, Masi.
You are my home, bella. I am lost without you. He couldn’t speak. There were no words to recoil the loss consuming him. Massimo brought his hands up to her face. Kissing her one last time. He had to for his sanity. And he did with great passion, knowing he’d hurt her face when she kissed him back. But she did. He heard the cry in her throat as their tongues danced. Warm tears touched his palms as they continued to kiss. His fingertips were wet with sadness. He kept on kissing her. Unable to stop, he needed ten more seconds. Ti amo, I love you. Please don’t leave. I’ve waited my whole life for you. When he pulled his face back, she cried, and he realized he did also.”
― Avery Aster, quote from Undressed
“He had always disliked the people who encored a favorite air in an opera—“That just spoils it” had been his comment. But this now appeared to him as a principle of far wider application and deeper moment. This itch to have things over again, as if life were a film that could be unrolled twice or even made to work backward . . . was it possibly the root of all evil? No: of course the love of money was called that. But money itself—perhaps one valued it chiefly as a defense against chance, a security for being able to have things over again, a means of arresting the unrolling of the film. He”
― C.S. Lewis, quote from Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet / Perelandra / That Hideous Strength
“The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape.”
― William Strunk Jr., quote from The Elements of Style
“I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.”
― Sylvia Plath, quote from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Mom always says I need to spend less time on the couch and more time being active. But the way I see it. I'm just conserving my energy for later on. When all my friends are in their eighties and their bodies are broken down, I'll just be getting started.”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Cabin Fever
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