Alice Hoffman Quotes About Bones

Quotes about: Bones

• A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten.

  Alice Hoffman

  Blood, Sorrow, Done

• When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.

  Alice Hoffman

  Writing, Character, Cutting

• Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.

  Alice Hoffman

  Skins, Skin And Bones, Bones

• Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It was the first thing that freed you and the thing that put you in peril. It was the key to the ten gates. I saw them clearly now, each and every one, the gates that were there for me. Ashes, Bones, Grass, Heart, Stone, Love, Sorrow, Blood, Earth, Sky.

  Alice Hoffman

  Heart, Keys, Blood

• Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.

  Alice Hoffman

  Real, Hair, Blood

  Alice Hoffman (2007). “Skylight Confessions”, Center Point Pub

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