He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.
Alice HoffmanHere's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
Alice HoffmanHe'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.
Alice HoffmanI 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