The Museum of Extraordinary Things
Alice Hoffman
Top 10 Best Quotes
“(Love) walks up to you,and when it does, you need to recognize it for what it is and, perhaps more important, for what it might become.”
“The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day.”
“It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.”
“Eddie had come to understand that what a man saw and what actually existed in the natural world often were contradictory. The human eye was not capable of true sight, for it was constrained by its own humanness, clouded by regret, and opinion, and faith. Whatever was witnessed in the real world was unknowable in real time. It was the eye of the camera that captured the world as it truly was.”
“You were the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all that we needed.”
“Listen, and you'll hear a story being told, one you may need to know.”
“... people can surprise you in so many ways, both with cruelty and with kindness.”
“the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep it close or let it go. Fate was both what we were given and what we made for ourselves.”
“Love like this was all consuming. I found that I was jealous of the strangest things - sunlight, streets, curtains, even her clothing, anything that was close to her.”
“People will disappoint you with their cruelty every time”
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Book Keywords:
love, truth
