Alice Hoffman

Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#love

Certain things need not be said, and there’s nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what’s about to happen. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#change

You are my armor and my sword, my faith and my tresure, everything I'm fighting for. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#he-dovekeepers #love #faith

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

#life

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#change

But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#death

Every man engaged in war tells himself he can alter what has been written, that it is he, not God, who is the maker of destiny, free to change what is meant to be. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#war #change

I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#business

I thought perhaps I had been wrong, too quick to judge the essence of a being by its appearance, still not fully understanding that, in the world God has given us, all things must change. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#life #change

Dreams came to men for many reasons, both as oracles and as warnings. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#dreams