Alice Retelling Quotes

Destinies, are like roads.
Relationships are much like destinies. Therefore, relationships are like roads.
Some roads are circular. They start at one spot and end in the same. Some roads fork and force. Their travelers to choose which way to go. Some roads go great distances. And then there are those that
end abruptly.
Who is to say that a short road is less meaningful than a long? ~ Heather Lyons

In many ways I was an independent woman. For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow. ~ Alice Steinbach

Come into my Tahoe, Simon, ~ Alice Clayton

Her brain was a storm, her usual insight gone. ~ Alice Sebold

The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience. ~ Alice Sebold

I fell into that kiss like Alice into Wonderland, headfirst and flailing, heart pounding the whole time. The world spun around me and still I fell, and I only crashed down to earth again when someone called my name. ~ Rachel Vincent

Every woman is only one bad boyfriend or one bad choice away from the street. And she's only one good choice back to the path that will lead her home. ~ Alice Hoffman

I moaned like a whore in church.
To be fair, I'd never actually heard a whore moan in church, but I had a feeling it sounded a lot like the unholy sounds pouring forth from my mouth. ~ Alice Clayton

Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before ~ Alice Sebold

When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is wrong. ~ Alice Dreger

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! ~ Lewis Carroll

Wonderful. Mad at home and mad here. Was there nowhere that this Alice was truly sane? ~ Melanie Karsak

Then, like a shimmering disk too rich and clear to be described, the sun slipped over the horizon and lined everything with gold. It was like seeing the world being born, and we were the sole witnesses. ~ Sarah J. Maas

A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet. ~ Alice Walker

Anyone who abandon's their children should be hung, by their toenails while awaiting flesh eating ants or some other painful flesh eating hungry creature to consume them. Slowly and painfully ... ~ A.R. Von

I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs. ~ Alice Sebold

Every ancient tale has truth at its heart," I said. "That's what I've always believed, anyway. But after years and years of retelling, the shape of those old stories changes. What may once have been simple and easily recognized becomes strange, wondrous and magical. Those are only the trappings of the story. The truth lies beneath those fantastic garments. ~ Juliet Marillier

Age is real life is short. It's foolhardy to deny it. We grow up, our bodies grow frail, death is coming. There's so much I want to do!
There's a whole world out there I havent seen, ppl I havent met and who havent know me.
God, there 're a million books I want to read.
I dont want to sleep ... I want to be awake.
This is my life - I want to live it ~ Mary Alice Monroe

If anyone bothered to search through the laurel bordering the asphalt he'd surely find handfuls of teeth that were said to give the laurel its odd milky color, ivory with a pale pink edge, each blossom forming the shape of a bitter man's mouth. ~ Alice Hoffman

Thus he spent his whole life searching for his own truth, but it remained hidden to him because he had learned at a very young age to hate himself for what his mother had done to him. ( ... ) But not once did he allow himself to direct his endless, justified rage at the true culprit, the woman who had kept him locked up in her prison for as long as she could. All his life he attempted to free himself of that prison, with the help of drugs, travel, illusions, and above all poetry. But in all these desperate efforts to open the doors that would have led to liberation, one of them remained obstinently shut, the most important one: the door to the emotional reality of his childhood, to the feelings of the little child who was forced to grow up with a severely disturbed, malevolent woman, with no father to protect him from her. ~ Alice Miller

Gawd might forgive but people never will. ~ Alice Childress

And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love. ~ Alice Herz-Sommer

It would become hard to explain, later on in her life, just what was okay in that time and what was not. You might say, well, feminism was not. But then you would have to explain that feminism was not even a word people used. Then you would get all tied up saying that having any serious idea, let alone ambition, or maybe even reading a real book, could be seen as suspect, having something to do with your child's getting pneumonia, and a political remark at an office party might have cost your husband his promotion. It would not have mattered which political party either. It was a woman's shooting off her mouth that did it. ~ Alice Munro

Women have been held back and limited throughout the centuries. Creation could not have been rendered, not even considered, let alone be brought into manifestation without woman. She is principal, a powerful energy. She is first. ~ Alice Coltrane

I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species. ~ Alice Steinbach

The living deserve attention, too ~ Alice Sebold

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet. ~ Alice Walker

It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish. ~ Alice Dunbar Nelson

The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy. ~ Alice Rivlin

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves. ~ Alice Miller

In Wonderland, the madder something is, the better it works," the Cheshire cat said. "Which is of course, why you fit in very well. ~ Melanie Karsak

People expected certain things of me: assistance, silence, comfort. They had no idea who I was. ~ Alice Hoffman

Everything else is the past or the future. Don't think about them. Be here with me, right now. ~ Christina Henry

There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour. ~ Dean Koontz

I'd long since learned that no difference in viewpoint should ever be allowed to cause the least break in love. Indeed, it cannot, if it's real love.
... But relationships can be kept intact without compromising one's own beliefs. And if we do not keep them intact, but give up and allow the chasm, we're breaking the second greatest commandment. ~ Catherine Marshall

This was the virtue of the dark: you were who you had always been, only no one could see you. ~ Alice Hoffman