The Dovekeepers Quotes.

1. "Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away."
- Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers

2. "I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream."
- Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers

3. "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?"
- Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers

4. "What men yearn for they often destroy."
- Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers

5. "We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could."
- Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers

6. "I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown."
- Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers

7. "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."
- Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers

8. "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."
- Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers

9. "You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be."
- Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers

10. "Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen."
- Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers