"There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant ro..."
- Alice Hoffman
"Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going."
"When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure."
"When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always."
"...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go."From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102."
"Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with."
"If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even y..."
"Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs."
"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."
"My mother was teaching me that the inside of something was not necessarily its outside. Always look carefully, she told me. Look with more than your eyes."