“To friendship,” she agreed, although for the longest time they didn’t let go of each other and she knew exactly what he… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“... hoping that if she just walked down the same street fate would whirl her backward in time until she was once… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment.… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The music of your youth stays with you and winds itself around your heart. I hear one chord of "Strawberry Fields Forever"… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Franny whispered to Haylin all that she ever was and had been. She told him that she had always known what the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“April certainly wasn’t the first person to have fallen for Vincent, or the first to be wounded by his indifference. She’d been… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“You watch teenage girls and feel shivers up and down your arms -- those poor creatures don't know the first thing about… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I did my best to pretend it wasn't so. ... I didn't have time to be ill. Now I know you can't… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“In the last few months, she'd had a lot of time to consider the state of mankind, and she'd decided that people… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Children would beg for a peppermint drop each time he walked into town, and they'd follow behind, asking for a second and… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Hochman had been right, the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Some people know the exact moment when they've lost everything. They can look back and see it plain as day and for… — 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
