Alice Hoffman Quotes

Oh, boy. I'm still in touch with about 90 percent of my exes. They would describe me as being unlucky in love.

I want to get married, but I'm always tortured in relationships.

Women always left me because I wouldn't commit, but then nothing changes a relationship like commitment. If you move in with someone, you lose all respect for them.

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.

I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.

I've had some great relationships that I have absolutely sabotaged because I'm afraid to get close to someone, and I know, eventually, I'll run off.

Ghosts of Marriages Past can haunt many aspects of a new relationship - your expectations of what a man should do, how you behave in conflict, your ideas of how commitment should look - they can even make your new man look untrustworthy when he's really behaving normally.

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

I can't get married. I can't fake sleep for 30 years.

I've never dated. I can say this honestly: I don't know what it's like to date. But also, how am I going to date? I'm not in one state long enough.

I have the world's worst taste in men, so now I simply have wonderful relationships of the friend kind, but trying to settle down with somebody? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm beyond that.

I tend to end relationships, so she can find somebody better than me. Because I want to be fair to people. I cannot devote enough energy and time and devotion to her. I think that is fair, no?

People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.

Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?

I don't even date; I'm terrible with women.

I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people.

All my life there's always been an ex-wife or a girlfriend.

Love is very fleeting with me. I don't know why.

I'm definitely scared by commitment.

For whatever reason, I'm a good representation of the guy who doesn't get the girl.

I was known for singing romantic songs to women, but I can also be that guy talking about why you can't be the only girl for me.

I never had many girls in my life.

I don't think I'm marriage material, to tell you the truth. I'd be a bad choice. But I'd be darling at being a girlfriend.

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.