Alice Hoffman Quotes About Sorrow

Quotes about: Sorrow

• 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

• Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

  Alice Hoffman

  Forever, Sorrow, Fortune

  Alice Hoffman (2000). “Local Girls”, p.67, Penguin Group

• In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.

  Alice Hoffman

  Sorrow, World, Ingredients

  Alice Hoffman (2009). “The Story Sisters: A Novel”, p.318, Broadway Books

• Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

  Alice Hoffman

  Sorrow, Waking Life, Waking

  Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

• 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

• Abra DeMadrigal didn't look young enough to be my sister anymore. Her sorrow weighed her down and aged her. She was still beautiful, but she looked very far away. No wonder our people had raven eyes, so distant, so sad. No matter how wise she was, my mother looked like a woman who hadn't truely believed how much evil there was in our world. Not until this moment.

  Alice Hoffman

  Beautiful, Wise, Mother

• My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.

  Alice Hoffman

  Sorrow, Used

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this

  Alice Hoffman

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Jobs

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