Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. — Alice Hoffman Ever after Copy Share Image
“All things change, for that is the way of the world we walk through.” — Alice Hoffman Change Copy Share Image
“Writing itself was a magical act in which imagination altered reality and gave form to power.” — Alice Hoffman Imagination Copy Share Image
...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Just know that what's done can be undone, but what's undone can never again be.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Lucy Green couldn't stop reading. She was a secret reader...” — Alice Hoffman Books 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
I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect. — Alice Hoffman Cold 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 Being human Copy Share Image
He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in… — Alice Hoffman Eternity Copy Share Image
“He has stumbled into love, and now he's stuck there. He's fairly used to not getting what he wants, and he's dealt… — Alice Hoffman Love Copy Share Image
Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood… — 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
“Into this cake Lila had baked three gifts: a cool hand to test for fevers, a kiss with the power to chase… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt… — 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
“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 Life Copy Share Image
“They may be nothing like you, he had written, they may surprise you, they may even repel you when their behavior is… — Alice Hoffman Children Copy Share Image
“Once I knew nothing about McKay and now I knew everything about him. This seemed as good as any reason for not… — 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
We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“She was partial to emeralds; she said they were the single thing that remained constant, always green, always the same...My mother had… — 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 August 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 Death Copy Share Image
She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I read "The Group" by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time. — Alice Hoffman Books Copy Share Image
“You can only know a friend so well after all. When you come right down to it, even your best friend is… — Alice Hoffman Best friend Copy Share Image
“Our mother is too well bred to hate,' Franny said. 'She disapproves.” — Alice Hoffman Hate Copy Share Image
“I wished to be forgiven. 'It was always so in the eyes of God,' Shirah told me.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote. — Alice Hoffman Brother Copy Share Image
...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not. — Alice Hoffman Crime Copy Share Image
Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help — Alice Hoffman Art Copy Share Image
In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients. — Alice Hoffman Grief Copy Share Image
“People expected certain things of me: assistance, silence, comfort. They had no idea who I was.” — Alice Hoffman Depression Copy Share Image
Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father. — 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
“They might curse you, even despise you for doing so, but it took strong measures to ensure that a boy lived long… — Alice Hoffman Becoming a man Copy Share Image
