"The Dovekeepers" Quotes
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman: A historical novel that follows the intertwined lives of four extraordinary women during the siege of Masada.
historical fiction | 504 pages | Published in 2011
Quotes
Love is a wound that opens wider each time it's touched.
We are all made of stars.
It is in the desert that you realize the world is created by imagination, and that the imagination of the world is created by desire.
We had to be strong, but we also had to be forgiving.
To live without love was to live without life.
We were all wandering stars, trying to find a place to land.
Dreams are the only things that let you live without being alive.
In the desert, everything is always the same and yet always changing.
We were the keepers of doves. They were messengers of love, but also of death.
We were bound to the earth, but the earth was bound to the sky.
