“When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow. ”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“I can hurt myself more than anyone else can," she told her sister. "I can do it with my eyes closed.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“They weren't true stories; they were better than that.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“Everything was red, the air, the sun, whatever I looked at. Except for him. I fell in love with someone who was human. I watched him walk through the hills and come back in the evening when his work was through. I saw things no woman would see: that he knew how to cry, that he was alone. I cast myself at him, like a fool, but he didn't see me. And then one day he noticed I was beautiful and he wanted me. He broke me off and took me with him, in his hands, and I didn't care that I was dying until I actually was.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“The only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep, those haunted by one thing or another: love thwarted, love lost, love thrown away. They were the sort of people who didn't want to be noticed, who wanted to slip through shadows, be alone with their despair.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“...even though she felt a wave of dread. If they knew she was nervous, she'd be at their mercy. But if they thought she was ice they'd be afraid to touch her.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“I cast myself at him, like a fool, but he didn't see me. And then one day he noticed I was beautiful and he wanted me. He broke me off and took me with him, in his hands, and I didn't care that I was dying until I actually was.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“Your grand daughter may not be looking for trouble, but trouble is looking for her.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“What people called the truth seemed worthless to her; what was it but a furtive, bruised story to convince yourself life was worth living.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“What was a demon but a lost soul, one that had been forced to use his skills to survive.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“Demons were said to be cruel, but a demon would never have been so brutal as this. A demon merely called you by name, threw his arms around you, whispered his plight, understood yours, then took you for his own.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“If you believed in something strongly and give it enough credence, it could appear right in front of you. Though it had been created in your mind, it would claim a presence in the real world, a monster at your door, a demon pulling at your coat sleeve.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“If she wanted to enter an otherworld, all she had to do was open a novel.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“You don't forget the people you love," she told him. "That's what I've realized. They just get farther away. Like a spyglass turned around. Annie to Pete”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“In the human world you had to choose your loyalties carefully. You had to see through to someone's heart.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“...the summer of the gypsy moths when all the trees in their yard were bare, the leaves chewed by caterpillars. You could hear crunching in the night. You could see silvery cocoon webbing in porch rafter and strung across stop signs.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“...the eldest who had the misfortune of being too beautiful and had a far off look in her eyes. Madame Cohen had seen what could happen to girls like that, they were picked off like fruit on a tree, devoured by blackbirds.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“Meg was a great reader and was never without a book; while walking to school she often had one open in her hands, so engrossed she would sometimes trip while navigating familiar streets.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“Pete wondered if the endings of things gathered in the corners of a room, hanging down like a spider's web, waiting.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
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“We may be only one of millions of advanced civilizations. Unfortunately, space being spacious, the average distance between any two of these civilizations is reckoned to be at least two hundred light-years, which is a great deal more than merely saying it makes it sound. It means for a start that even if these beings know we are here and are somehow able to see us in their telescopes, they're watching light that left Earth two hundred years ago. So, they're not seeing you and me. They're watching the French Revolution and Thomas Jefferson and people in silk stockings and powdered wigs--people who don't know what an atom is, or a gene, and who make their electricity by rubbing a rod of amber with a piece of fur and think that's quite a trick. Any message we receive from them is likely to begin "Dear Sire," and congratulate us on the handsomness of our horses and our mastery of whale oil. Two hundred light-years is a distance so far beyond us as to be, well, just beyond us.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from A Short History of Nearly Everything
“I want to tell you a story. I'm going to ask you all to close your eyes while I tell you the story. I want you to listen to me. I want you to listen to yourselves. Go ahead. Close your eyes, please. This is a story about a little girl walking home from the grocery store one sunny afternoon. I want you to picture this little girl. Suddenly a truck races up. Two men jump out and grab her. They drag her into a nearby field and they tie her up and they rip her clothes from her body. Now they climb on. First one, then the other, raping her, shattering everything innocent and pure with a vicious thrust in a fog of drunken breath and sweat. And when they're done, after they've killed her tiny womb, murdered any chance for her to have children, to have life beyond her own, they decide to use her for target practice. They start throwing full beer cans at her. They throw them so hard that it tears the flesh all the way to her bones. Then they urinate on her. Now comes the hanging. They have a rope. They tie a noose. Imagine the noose going tight around her neck and with a sudden blinding jerk she's pulled into the air and her feet and legs go kicking. They don't find the ground. The hanging branch isn't strong enough. It snaps and she falls back to the earth. So they pick her up, throw her in the back of the truck and drive out to Foggy Creek Bridge. Pitch her over the edge. And she drops some thirty feet down to the creek bottom below. Can you see her? Her raped, beaten, broken body soaked in their urine, soaked in their semen, soaked in her blood, left to die. Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white.”
― John Grisham, quote from A Time to Kill
“That's just pain she said. It goes eventually. And when it's gone, there's no lasting memory. Not the worst of it anyway. It fades. Our minds aren't made to hold on to the particulars of pain the way we do bliss. It's a gift God gives us, a sign of His care for us.”
― Charles Frazier, quote from Cold Mountain
“home, they could go directly to their own room, where hartshorn”
― Jane Austen, quote from The Complete Novels
“Based on Gulliver's descriptions of their behaviour, the King describes Europeans as "the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.”
― Jonathan Swift, quote from Gulliver's Travels
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