They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.
Alice HoffmanWhat people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map of an individualโs soul.
Alice HoffmanLove was like rain: it turned into ice, or it disappeared. Now you saw it, now you couldn't find it no matter how hard you might search. Love evaporated; obsession was realer; it hurt, like a pin in your bottom, a stone in your shoe. It didn't go away in the blink of an eye. A morning phone call filled with regret. A letter that said, Dear you, good-bye from me. Obsession tasted like something familiar. Something you'd known your whole life. It settled and lurked; it stayed with you.
Alice HoffmanPeople want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.
Alice Hoffman