Quotes about Resilience
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
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