In 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 HoffmanSome things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.
Alice HoffmanWomen know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.
Alice Hoffman