Love Quote by Alice Hoffman

Hoffman’s line lands with the quiet authority of someone who’s watched desire sprint ahead of wisdom and call it fate. “Anyway” is doing stealth work: it shrugs, it deflates melodrama, it signals a narrator who has already lived through the messy chapter and is now editing the takeaway. That tonal downshift matters because it frames the thought as hard-earned triage, not a romantic manifesto.

“The sort of love that will not wait” sounds like passion, but Hoffman treats impatience as a tell, not a virtue. The subtext is blunt: urgency can be a tactic. It can be immaturity, entitlement, or even control dressed up as longing. Love that refuses to wait often needs an immediate yes because time might invite scrutiny: friends will ask questions, reality will show up, the spell might break. By contrast, love that can tolerate delay suggests sturdier materials - respect for another person’s pace, a willingness to live alongside uncertainty, an ability to survive outside the adrenaline of pursuit.

“Probably best to pass by” keeps the judgment calibrated. She doesn’t claim impatience is always toxic; she admits ambiguity, the way people do when they’re trying to spare their younger selves a scar without pretending life offers perfect rules. Contextually, it fits Hoffman’s broader fictional terrain, where romance is rarely just romance: it’s family history, self-protection, and the cost of mistaking intensity for destiny. The line works because it punctures the culture’s favorite myth - that the most urgent love is the most real - with a single, almost offhand caution.