Alice Hoffman Men Quotations

He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.

What men yearn for they often destroy.

Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.

My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.

What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.

You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you're not really there.

Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.

A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.

It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone — maybe even more alone — than I was…

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.