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Quotes About Emotion

Revenge did that to a person; it caused even the insecure and the meek to take foolhardy chances. After a while it became a way of life; the risks felt as natural as drawing a breath.
~ Alice Hoffman
Everything seemed slow, molasses slow, lovesick slow.
~ Alice Hoffman
I knew that my brother would still be a part of this world no matter what happened next. I felt my love for him so deeply that my blood seemed to flow down the street to him. My blood sang out my prayer for Luis even while he was still living in our world.
~ Alice Hoffman
Love is ancient and mysterious and you can't mess with it. If you do it just backfires and you meet with disaster.
~ Alice Hoffman
There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas and spelled out in contracts and poems and sighs, in old whispers and song lyrics, in promises and vows.
~ Alice Hoffman
Unable are the Loved to die, for Love is Immortality," Jet said, quoting Emily Dickinson.
~ Alice Hoffman
She has an eye for tragedy and sorrow.
~ Alice Hoffman
Lightning, like love, is never ruled by logic.
~ Alice Hoffman
I understood wanting to forget. Things that made you remember cut like pieces of glass.
~ Alice Hoffman
Love was never a mistake, even when it wasn't returned.
~ Alice Hoffman
I'd been bitten by a lion, but you had to look inside me to see the scar.
~ Alice Hoffman
Don't cry while you are reading the book wait until you are done reading it.
~ Alice Hoffman
She wishes he would come to her tonight, climb in through the window to lie down beside her and explain how it's possible to love someone so much and still manage to carry on when you have to let them go.
~ Alice Hoffman
You know what love is?...It's what you least expect.
~ Alice Hoffman
Isn't that what love makes you do? Go on trying even when you're through. Go on even when you're made of ash, when there's nothing left inside you but the past?
~ Alice Hoffman
I had never felt so alive as when reading.
~ Alice Hoffman
I thought about how it was impossible to forget, no matter how hard anyone might try.
~ Alice Hoffman
This was the way love walked in, barely dressed, confused, panic-stricken, overcome, not caring what anyone thought or what they believed.
~ Alice Hoffman
Love had to happen without any certainty, the ultimate leap of faith.
~ Alice Hoffman
A book doesn't live when it's written. It lives when it's read.
~ Alice Hoffman
He thought about how love could move you in ways you wouldn't have imagined, one foot in front of the other, even when you thought you had nothing left inside.
~ Alice Hoffman
It is simply the way of the world to lose everything you have ever loved. In this, we are like everyone else.
~ Alice Hoffman
She had been wrong about love. She had thought it was meant for fools alone, only to discover it was a fool who walked away from love, no matter the cost or the penalty.
~ Alice Hoffman
Love is trouble, and trouble is love.
~ Alice Hoffman