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Illumination Night QUOTES

Illumination Night QUOTES

1 " He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her. "

― Alice Hoffman , Illumination Night

2 " Elizabeth is suddenly reminded that she can walk down that road anytime she wants to. There are better things to be afraid of than a country road bordered with scrub pine and oaks. "

― Alice Hoffman , Illumination Night

3 " He wants to be everything to Simon his own father was not, but already Simon runs to Vonny for comfort. When Simon is with Andre it’s as though he doesn’t think his father can recognize pain. If Simon falls when they’re together, he picks himself up and keeps running and Andre never finds out until later, when Simon sits on Vonny’s lap and shows her the scrape, that his son has been hurt. Andre doesn’t want to believe that his own father’s indifference was anything other than what it seemed. And yet, when he thinks of his father getting up long before dawn, maneuvering his Ford down snow-blocked roads he would later plow, Andre wishes that just once, instead of lying in bed until he heard the car start, he had gotten up and made a Thermos full of black coffee. "

― Alice Hoffman , Illumination Night

4 " This is what you have realized: your father will not continue to be alive after he has died. You truly have not known this before. You have viewed death as though you were a five-year-old. You have imagined battling with your father after he was dead, trying to convince him you were worthy. You are no longer concerned with being someone’s daughter. But at least your struggle with your father has allowed you to know what you are to your own child. You are the person who never dies, you are a parent, not quite human, there only to love him. "

― Alice Hoffman , Illumination Night

5 " You will be amazed to find how easy it is to lie, even to those you love best. "

― Alice Hoffman , Illumination Night