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“Coming home to someone is many things. It is a literal action, an abstract idea, a physical feeling. It is more than the sound of the key turning in the door and the voice that calls from the porch. It is a choice, a promise, a declaration. It is a return, not as a person to a place, but as oneself to another. It is one person saying to another person: You are the one I choose.”
― Tania De Rozario, And the Walls Come Crumbling Down

“You are the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all we needed. For that, and for a thousand other things, I send my gratitude.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things

“This was the virtue of the dark: you were who you had always been, only no one could see you.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things

“People will disappoint you with their cruelty every time”
― Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things