Alice Hoffman Quotes

Kevin stopped where he was and stood there simply gazing at her. Molly sat cross-legged in the meadow with the sun shining on her bare shoulders and a pair of yellow butterflies fluttering like hair bows around her head. She was all the dreams he'd lost at dawn-dreams of everything he hadn't understood he needed until now. She was his playmate, his confidante, the lover who made his blood rush. She was the mother of his children and the companion of his old age. She was the joy of his heart.

Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.

We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still in each other's arms lulled by our love, by tenderness -- sensuality in which the whole being can participate.

Oh, love. Love is best of all. There is no such total element, not even pain. Who has ever loved, knows this. I need not say more.

She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever.

Come close to me baby. Let your love hold you. I know this world is crazy, but what's it without you?

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

And you are worth the time it takes to take the time to get to know you. We've managed to muttle through the awkward stage of i like you and you like me, but when we both finally said 'yes' life became a multiple choice test, not knowing anything we became each others best guess. and, holding your hand is less like exploration and more like discovery. lady, i don't have to study you to be sure. you're the choice i made before i knew what the other choices were

Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.

Art is much, but love is more.

I'm thinking I would like to dance in the rain with this person. I would like to lie next to him in the dark and watch him breathe and watch him sleep and wonder what he's dreaming about and not get an inferiority complex if the dreams aren't about me.

Don't leave my embrace for here in my arms is your place.

Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

When I'm in love with a woman, seeing her in something cozy makes me not want to let go of her when I'm holding her.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

My wife Ciera and I can stand face-to-face in our kitchen and stare into each other's eyes and talk for three hours without noticing that any time has passed. She is the kind of gal I spent a lifetime daydreaming about. She is an actor and a creative companion.

I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.

A boy is holding a girl so very tight in his arms tonight.

I have had big relationships. Three times in my life I have felt a special connection, but people talk about looking for love as if it's just like walking into a Starbucks and buying a coffee when you feel like it. It's rare, that special connection.

I have many that wants to, let's say, marry me. But I always tell my mother that the day I have to ask myself, 'I love this man?' means I don't love him.

I've never believed in or understood romantic love. Love at first sight was always a complete joke to me.

There's something about two people coming together in the rain that is the ultimate expression of love in the minds of most audiences, I guess.

Stay with me tonight. Let me hold you even if that's all it is. Let me keep you safe.

A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing—not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.

I'd never expected my first time to be in a cabin in the woods, but I realized the place didn't matter. The person did. With someone you loved, you could be anywhere, and it would be incredible. Being in the most luxurious bed in the world wouldn't matter if you were with someone you didn't love.