“Dreams came to men for many reasons, both as oracles and as warnings.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“What you are able to dream you are able to grow, she says to me. If you don't believe in it, it… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“When darkness fell, he told me to close my eyes and dream, for in my dreams I would find another world, and… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. The… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eyes closed… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
“All of the quarters in his hand were tarnished. He had no idea that the silver in a man’s pockets always turns black if… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
“It was after dark when the woods were most filled with magic, when there were fireflies and the mist was rising from the streams.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
“Never look back, that's what she's told herself. Don't think about swans or being alone in the dark. Don't think of storms, or lightning… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
“She preferred cats to human beings and turned down every offer from the men who fell in love with her.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
“Her vision was going, but she could see him, the way people see clouds-beautiful, racing by, casting shadows.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
“...the summer of the gypsy moths when all the trees in their yard were bare, the leaves chewed by caterpillars. You could hear crunching… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
“Haylin was given a good talking-to by the headmaster and made to write a paper about workers’ rights, which he considered a privilege rather… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage."… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share
