Quotes about Understanding
And what of monsters? Can they love too? We know quite well they can. For we know that they do.
— Alice Hoffman
I had been blind to the pain of others until I had my own burden to carry.
— Alice Hoffman
A familiar is such a creature, an animal or bird that sees inside to the very soul of its human companion, and knows what others might not. What fears there might be, and what joys, for it shares the emotions of its human partner.
— Alice Hoffman
A lot of people don't know what to do about grief. I don't blame you for a thing.
— Alice Hoffman
To friendship," she agreed, although for the longest time they didn't let go of each other and she knew exactly what he was thinking—This must be fate—for that was what she was thinking as well.
— Alice Hoffman
Let my burden be your burden, and yours be mine.
— Alice Hoffman
Who would have guessed you'd be crying over that old hay bag." But that wasn't it at all, Elinor saw that from the look on his face when he turned to her. That was the attachment, that was the way he held on to her.
— Alice Hoffman
I thought perhaps it was more important to listen than to be heard.
— Alice Hoffman
She didn't thank Ben, and she probably should have, but maybe he knows that she's grateful. Maybe he understands that saying thank you can be just as hard as saying good-bye.
— Alice Hoffman
As long as she lives she will never figure out why it is that some boys refuse to see that somebody loves them.
— Alice Hoffman
That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do as imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.
— Alice Hoffman
She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me.
— Alice Hoffman