I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?
Alice HoffmanEverything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It was the first thing that freed you and the thing that put you in peril. It was the key to the ten gates. I saw them clearly now, each and every one, the gates that were there for me. Ashes, Bones, Grass, Heart, Stone, Love, Sorrow, Blood, Earth, Sky.
Alice HoffmanOthers said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.
Alice HoffmanFeel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever.
Alice Hoffman