The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.
Alice HoffmanYoung people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.
Alice HoffmanGood fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
Alice HoffmanFeel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. The ever after, what precisely was that? Your dreams, your life, your death, your everything. Was it the blank space that went on without us? The forever after we were gone?
Alice Hoffman