01UndatedPerhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.Alice Hoffman / quote ↗
02UndatedThe voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.Alice Hoffman / quote ↗
03UndatedEven as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.Alice Hoffman / quote ↗
05UndatedThe story became a cloud, and the cloud a sheet of rain, and rain fell throughout the empire.Alice Hoffman / quote ↗
06UndatedI 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 / quote ↗
07UndatedBut I was not a mouse. In the fields where I walked, I was much more interested in the actions of the hawks.Alice Hoffman / quote ↗
08UndatedIn a novel, you'll find yourself in a world of possibilities. You'll find shelter there.Alice Hoffman / quote ↗
09UndatedThey sealed this promise by hooking pinkies, the way they used to, long ago, when promises didn't hurt as much.Alice Hoffman / quote ↗
11UndatedThere seemed to be handfuls of stars tossed right above the rooftops in Haddan, keeping the town still alight at midnight.Alice Hoffman / quote ↗
12UndatedI knew what happened in fairy tales. The strong survived while the weak were eaten alive.Alice Hoffman / quote ↗
13UndatedShe has an eye for tragedy and sorrow. Show her a rose and she'll see only the wasp in the center of the bloom.Alice Hoffman / quote ↗
14UndatedYour sorrow will become smaller, like a star in the daylight that you can't even see. It's there, shining, but there is also a vast expanse of blue sky.Alice Hoffman / quote ↗
15UndatedTime wasn't the same anymore. Doors were slamming shut before we even knew they'd been opened. Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.Alice Hoffman / quote ↗
17UndatedThe sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.Alice Hoffman / quote ↗
18UndatedSuch was the case with most unhappy students; they avoided even one another, so intent on their own unhappiness they failed to notice the other lost souls around them.Alice Hoffman / quote ↗
19UndatedIt was amazing how many colors there were, all running into the gutter in a stream: a dozen shades of blue, twenty different reds, and all that black soot, like a nightmare given form, the insides of a heart, destroyed so easily, done away with before anyone could stop the damage, or salvage what was lost, or even try to save him.Alice Hoffman / quote ↗
20UndatedI only have one story now.The story was heroin. It was made out of sensation, not words; it was invisible and murderous and unstoppable. Sam disappeared from her slowly, like a snowman melting, until all Blanca had left of him was a pool of freezing-cold blue water, arctic cold, sorrow colored, evaporating with every year. She did her best to hold onto him, but it was impossible, like carrying ice into the desert or making time stand still. After the final fight when Sam moved out, Blanca saw him less and less often. He no longer had a presence; he was like the outline of a person, an absence rather than a full-fledged human being.Alice Hoffman / quote ↗
21UndatedShe thinks of the way angels arrive, when you lease expect them, when the road is dark, when you're bleeding and alone and hopeless, when you're sleeping in a basement, convinced that no one knows you're there.Alice Hoffman / quote ↗
22UndatedIt had made her too helpless, because that's what love did. There was no way around it and no way to fight it. Now if she lost, she lost everything.Alice Hoffman / quote ↗
23UndatedYou should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind.Alice Hoffman / quote ↗
