Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.
Alice HoffmanNever look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.
Alice HoffmanI think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life
Alice HoffmanHe believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
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