Alice Hoffman, The Marriage Of Opposites Quotes
From the time I could read, I found solace in my father's library...At the ages of ten and eleven and twelve I would have preferred to remain in the library...
Perhaps I was drawn to stories in which people found their true desires because I was a stranger to myself.
...never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own.
There is the outside of a story, and the inside of a story... One is the fruit and may be delicious, but the other is the seed.
But I was not a mouse. In the fields where I walked, I was much more interested in the actions of the hawks.
I knew what happened in fairy tales. The strong survived while the weak were eaten alive.
She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me.
I only had access to him when we were together in the library, and I loved them both -the library and my father- equally and without question.
Although my father had never been there, I came to believe I would someday see that city for him.
