Olivia

“I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren’t easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most of all.”
― Alice Hoffman, Green Heart

“He’s so kindhearted no dog has ever barked at him. No child has ever cried in front of him. No bee has ever tried to sting him.”
― Alice Hoffman, Green Heart

“I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought it merely happened, washing over you like water. It was nothing to search for, nothing to force. I didn’t understand that even when we can’t control our fate, we alone have the last say in matters of the heart. We can give it freely, even in the worst of times, even when it isn’t returned. The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing.”
― Alice Hoffman, Green Heart

“I have created myself a soul, big as the world, that leaks all over, and I have to keep calling for the plumber.”
― Anaïs Nin, Fire: From A Journal of Love - The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin