Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or… — 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
That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“He'd already realized that he could not begin to understand the things men did; now he saw women were even harder to… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the… — 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
My grandmother told me once that when you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well, but that's not… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articulate the pain; it… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." Books… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the… — 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
![“I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.” quote by Alice Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b3b/alice-hoffman-427_book_i-have-nothing-from-my-childhood-i-think_1351735.png)
