Faithful Quotes

“You rescue something and you're responsible for it. But maybe that's what love is. Maybe it's like a hit-and-run accident; it smashes you before you can think. You do it no matter the cost and you keep on running”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“Life was beautiful, everyone knew that, but it was also bitter and bleak and unfair as hell and where did that leave a person? On the outs with the rest of the world. Someone who sat alone in the cafeteria, reading, escaping from his hometown simply by turning the page.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“People say if you face your worst fear, the rest is easy, but those are people who are afraid of rattlesnakes or enclosed spaces, not of themselves and the horrible things they've done.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“She doesn't have a mother anymore. There's no one to whom she's the most important person in the world.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“I think of life as a book of stories. You move through the stories and the characters change. But once you have a name on your skin you are stuck with one story, even if it's a bad one.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“See a charmer and you’re bound to see a snake nearby,”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“Feelings are best left concealed. They can bite you if you're not careful. They can eat you alive.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“She's beginning to wonder if perhaps she's haunting herself.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“Don't make me sit through reality.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“what does love matter in a world where it’s so easy to hurt someone?”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“I'm glad it all happened," he says. "Even the bad parts.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“Everyone should know exactly what everyone else is thinking and then people wouldn't hurt each other so much.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“Love has nothing to do with time or space.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“She has an eye for tragedy and sorrow. Show her a rose and she'll see only the wasp in the center of the bloom.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“She has an eye for tragedy and sorrow.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“She wishes he would come to her tonight, climb in through the window to lie down beside her and explain how it's possible to love someone so much and still manage to carry on when you have to let them go.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“Shelby watched the books burn. She wonders if words are pouring down on other people's houses,sad words, like beast and mourn and sorrow and mother.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“I believe in tragedy,” Shelby responds coldly. “Not miracles.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“You're like the weird fucked-up sister of yourself, Shelby. Whereas I'm just an extension of my loser self that anyone could have foreseen. I have followed the path set out before me. You veered.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“I'm sticking with books. They never let you down and they don't judge you.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“She read the color-coded series of Andrew Lang's fairy tales to her mother. They became lost in an enchanted cottage with vines growing over the window. It was dark and it was quiet and they could hear each other softly breathing. Every story had the same message: what was deep inside could only be deciphered by someone who understood how easily a heart could be broken.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“Some things are best remembered the way you want to remember them, like this road, these stars, this girl right beside him as they walk into the center of the cold night, looking straight ahead.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“She thinks of the way angels arrive, when you lease expect them, when the road is dark, when you're bleeding and alone and hopeless, when you're sleeping in a basement, convinced that no one knows you're there.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“She takes the fortune cookies from the bottom of the bag and throws them into a glass bowl she keeps in the closet. She has no desire to know what her future might hold.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“Shelby is brutally honest. That’s why Maravelle likes her. Maravelle is brutally honest too. You can’t have many friends if you act that way, but you can depend on the ones you have.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“Maybe he understands that saying thank you can be just as hard as saying good-bye.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“Do you think your mother came back?" Shelby asks him.
"Definitely. She's a cardinal who lives in my backyard.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“You rescue something and you’re responsible for it. But maybe that’s what love is.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“She is surrounded by stalks of dahlias, orange and yellow and pale red, with leaves so big you could write your life story on each one. She looks like a flower in the garden, just like her mother said.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“Nowadays, she doesn't even look in a mirror. She's afraid no one will be staring back at her.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful