Alice Hoffman: Quotes about love

“Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.”

“Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.”

“When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.”

“I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.”

“Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.”

“Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.”

“Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?”

“Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.”

“(Love) walks up to you, and when it does, you need to recognize it for what it is and, perhaps more important, for what it might become.”

“Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.”

“Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.'…'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.”

“Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.”

“I was beginning to understand. My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things; that was why everything had to be perfect.”

“In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.”