Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.
Alice HoffmanTrouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.
Alice HoffmanI never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.
Alice HoffmanDo you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.
Alice HoffmanThe original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
Alice HoffmanMy theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
Alice Hoffman