Quotes about Resilience
I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren't easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most of all.
— Alice Hoffman
He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had.
— 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
Life is trouble, brother. You've got to fight for what you want.
— Alice Hoffman
In Berlin evil came to them slowly and then all at once.
— Alice Hoffman
From the very start, Sally has been lying to herself, telling herself she can handle anything, and she doesn't want to lie anymore. One more lie and she'll be truly lost. One more and she'll never find her way back through the woods.
— Alice Hoffman
Hard times make for simple minds.
— Alice Hoffman
You once said that just as anything whole can be broken, anything broken can be put back together again.
— Alice Hoffman
just do the best I can to face what life brings. That's the secret, you know. That's the way you change your fate.
— Alice Hoffman
I'd thrown my fate away once, and I would never again allow other people's opinions rule my life. As a girl I'd done what was necessary, but I was a girl no longer.
— Alice Hoffman
I was not pleased to be sent from my mother, but I occupied myself, a skill learned by children who must sometimes act older than their age.
— Alice Hoffman