“I'd been bitten by a lion, but you had to look inside me to see the scar.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“What’s done cannot be undone. What’s set into motion takes on a life of its own.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“What people called the truth seemed worthless to her; what was it but a furtive, bruised story to convince yourself life was… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the… — 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
Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“when you truly love someone and they love you in return, you ruin your lives together. That is not a curse, it’s… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
It doesnt matter what people tell you. It doesnt matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Vincent gave him the twenty. “You don’t think you might be looking for trouble?” Levi thanked Vincent for the loan, but laughed… — 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
What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire… — 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
“Life is a mystery, and it should be so, for the sorrow that accompanies being human and the choices one will have… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“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,… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“When Juliet came flying down the hallway, Stella didn't recognize her friend. Juliet hadn't bothered with makeup; she was wearing a nightgown… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“All the same, there were some things they needed to learn. Do not drink milk after a thunderstorm, for it will certainly… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Amazing where your life can deposit you before you know it. One, two, three, and you're on a completely different road than… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“For six months I did what women do: I waited. This is what women are taught to be good at. It's said… — 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
“Blue must be worn for protection. Moonstones were useful in connecting with the living, topaz to contact the dead. Copper, sacred to… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I just do the best I can to face what life brings. That’s the secret, you know. That’s the way you change… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“This is what happens when you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Do you ever get the feeling that your life isn’t really your own, and you’ve just sort of let things happen to… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“If the Wolfman had not disappeared from my life I would have made certain to question him further about” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It’s for your own good,” she said tenderly. “All I want for you is a normal life.” “Mother,” Franny sighed. “What makes… — 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
