Alice Hoffman

Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.

— Alice Hoffman

“Such things as smiles can be weapons as well.”

— Alice Hoffman

“When you change your name you change your fate as well.”

— Alice Hoffman

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

— Alice Hoffman

They weren't true stories; they were better than that.

— Alice Hoffman

Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

— Alice Hoffman

“Don't worry. I'm not afraid of words.”

— Alice Hoffman

“Love more, her aunt had said. Not less.”

— Alice Hoffman

“If there be a cure, seek till you find it. If there be none, never mind it.”

— Alice Hoffman

Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

— Alice Hoffman

“What was a demon but a lost soul, one that had been forced to use his skills to survive.”

— Alice Hoffman

Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

— Alice Hoffman

Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

— Alice Hoffman

It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.

— Alice Hoffman

“For what you can fix, there are a hundred remedies. For what cannot be cured, not even words will do.”

— Alice Hoffman

“No one called out my name. Finally, I went to open the door. I could smell burning metal.”

— Alice Hoffman

“She kept a stack of books near the tub so she could read in the bath, even though the edges of the…

— Alice Hoffman

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or…

— Alice Hoffman

It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me.…

— Alice Hoffman

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

He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

— Alice Hoffman

“She thinks of the way angels arrive, when you lease expect them, when the road is dark, when you're bleeding and alone…

— Alice Hoffman

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a…

— Alice Hoffman

Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss,…

— Alice Hoffman

“A visitor to campus can find sweet, aromatic Properity, as well as Climbing Ophelia and those delicious Egyptian Roses, which give off…

— Alice Hoffman

The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands…

— Alice Hoffman

“She truly believed that she carried her own fate in the palm of her hand, as if destiny was nothing more than…

— Alice Hoffman

“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

“He knew exactly how to hit a woman, so that the marks hardly showed. He knew how to kiss her, too, so…

— Alice Hoffman

The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get…

— Alice Hoffman

“...if anyone bothered to search through the laurel bordering the asphalt he'd surely find handfuls of teeth that were said to give…

— Alice Hoffman

“Fourth time's the charm," she says to people who ask her what the secret of a happy marriage is, but that's not…

— Alice Hoffman

In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way…

— Alice Hoffman

“ We know what we need when we get it, Brock Stewart had once said. Elinor understood this to be true whenever…

— Alice Hoffman

“Blue must be worn for protection. Moonstones were useful in connecting with the living, topaz to contact the dead. Copper, sacred to…

— Alice Hoffman

“... but where do we go?"(Elinor) "I used to think there was a plan, a rough plan, but a plan all the…

— Alice Hoffman

Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn’t help but notice which…

— Alice Hoffman

“What's the difference between love and obsession? Didn't both make you stay up all night, wandering the streets, a victim of your…

— Alice Hoffman

Everything was red, the air, the sun, whatever I looked at. Except for him. I fell in love with someone who was…

— Alice Hoffman

“She truly hates being on the East Coast. All this humidity and greenery. She'd do almost anything to avoid the past. Most…

— Alice Hoffman