The Dovekeepers
Alice Hoffman
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.”
“I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.”
“Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?”
“What men yearn for they often destroy.”
“We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.”
“Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.”
“Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.”
“You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.”
“I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.”
“This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.”
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Book Keywords:
give-up, mothers, love, time, truth, secrets, daughters, dream, woman, woman-s-secrets, desire, yearning
