My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.
Alice HoffmanI've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
Alice HoffmanI saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.
Alice HoffmanI can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.
Alice HoffmanIn the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars.
Alice Hoffman