Fortune's Daughter Quotes

“She begged for time to stop, for clocks to break, for every star to remain fixed. But none of that happened.”
― Alice Hoffman, Fortune's Daughter

“She never used a cookbook again—after all, there was no point in cooking for someone who couldn’t tell the difference between a gâteau au chocolat and a defrosted Sara Lee cake.”
― Alice Hoffman, Fortune's Daughter

“out from under the far side of the table,”
― Alice Hoffman, Fortune's Daughter

“The worst thing in the world for a mother is to leave her child. She couldn’t bring herself to remember you, because if she did she’d have to leave you behind.”
― Alice Hoffman, Fortune's Daughter

“People have private places in their minds", Jason Grey said. "That doesn't mean they're crazy. It doesn't even mean they're cowards if they run from something awful.”
― Alice Hoffman, Fortune's Daughter

“Everyone said it was the earthquake; it disrupted atoms in the air, bringing out the worst you had hidden inside.”
― Alice Hoffman, Fortune's Daughter

“Into this cake Lila had baked three gifts: a cool hand to test for fevers, a kiss with the power to chase away nightmares, a heart that can tell when it’s time to let go.”
― Alice Hoffman, Fortune's Daughter

“It was possible, Richard knew, to be away from home too long, to forget all the things you once knew by heart. He didn’t want just his father, he wanted the boy he used to be, someone who could be comforted by the sound of his parents talking in the next room, someone who refused to come into the house for supper until after dusk because that was the hour when deer mysteriously appeared in the driveway.”
― Alice Hoffman, Fortune's Daughter

“was in this way that the mother discovered that she still had the will to live, even now, and she was usually the first one to help when the cottage was rebuilt.”
― Alice Hoffman, Fortune's Daughter