Quotes about Resilience
You were a boy. Life is a mess, that's what Isabelle told me when I decided to have the child, but all we can do is live it.
— Alice Hoffman
Love was never a mistake, even when it wasn't returned. It was not unlike the phlox in Catherine Avery's garden, untended, ignored, but there all the same.
— Alice Hoffman
Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.
— Alice Hoffman
what you give up you can learn to live without, even if it causes you heartbreak at the start. Whether you are mortal or not, you go on, even if sorrow nags
— Alice Hoffman
I wondered if damaged people ever got over what damaged them.
— Alice Hoffman
Despite the curse, despite the losses you might endure, she knew now that love was the only thing that lasted. It was inside you and with you for all eternity.
— Alice Hoffman
Well, I think of life as a novel. You can't just hop out of the mess you're in and into another story. You carry it all with you.
— Alice Hoffman
Those lines in Gillian's face are the most beautiful part about her. They reveal what she's gone through and what she's survived and who exactly she is, deep inside.
— Alice Hoffman
Fate is what you make of it. You can make the best of it, or you can let it make the best of you.
— Alice Hoffman
She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me.
— Alice Hoffman
Life was worth living, no matter what fate might bring.
— Alice Hoffman
life. She was only a girl and exhausted from her journey, but she would do as she must in order to survive.
— Alice Hoffman