Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of… — Alice Hoffman Bad fortune Copy Share Image
“Revenge did that to a person; it caused even the insecure and the meek to take foolhardy chances. After a while it… — Alice Hoffman Revenge 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 Books Copy Share Image
“They carried what was holy within them, for every man was a temple, and every prayer spoken could be heard by our… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the… — Alice Hoffman Domain Copy Share Image
“Men are men, with all their flaws, as we have ours, that’s true, but the best among them manage to discover who… — Alice Hoffman Flaws Copy Share Image
I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought it merely happened, washing over you like water. It was… — 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 Choices 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 Art Copy Share Image
He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below.… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It was amazing how many colors there were, all running into the gutter in a stream: a dozen shades of blue, twenty… — Alice Hoffman Art Copy Share Image
“They believed that remembering someone could bring them back to you long after they had departed, if you only concentrated hard enough,… — Alice Hoffman Across the universe Copy Share Image
“We can offer women what they want most of all, cures for the most common ailments of this world... When children are… — Alice Hoffman Failure Copy Share Image
If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If… — Alice Hoffman Failure Copy Share Image
“I thought he knew me better than most...Then one nigh Jack brought me flowers, a handful of fading daisies he'd picked up… — Alice Hoffman Flowers Copy Share Image
“Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I’d always felt safer with stories than with… — Alice Hoffman Flesh and blood 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 Life 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
“and behind them came the women, and then the children with sticks and stones in their hands. There was a line of… — Alice Hoffman Children 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
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
“But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep… — Alice Hoffman Battle Copy Share Image
“Love like this wasn't what he'd planned or wanted or expected, surely it was indeed a trap, for even when you tried… — Alice Hoffman Discipline Copy Share Image
My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Pain was something to get used to, to inure yourself against. I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else,… — Alice Hoffman Pain 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 Destiny Copy Share Image
“You don't forget the people you love," she told him. "That's what I've realized. They just get farther away. Like a spyglass… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in… — Alice Hoffman Another world Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think we can learn everything we need to know about the world when we read fairy tales. Be careful, be… — Alice Hoffman Fairy Copy Share Image
“A breeze had come up and there was the scent of loam in the air. Hay and fertilizer. Sweet grass and wild… — Alice Hoffman Flower 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 Destiny Copy Share Image
“How wonderful to say whatever you wanted without having to go over it in your mind, again and again, to make certain… — Alice Hoffman Psychology Copy Share Image
“(Love) walks up to you,and when it does, you need to recognize it for what it is and, perhaps more important, for… — Alice Hoffman Love Copy Share Image
“Her salvation was the novels she read. On nights she thought it might br better not to be alive w/o Levi in… — Alice Hoffman Books Copy Share Image
“People really could be one way outside, when inside they were torn to shreds, a fine white powder of grief and regret… — Alice Hoffman Death 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 Life Copy Share Image
“The stars are reflected from within the black water in the cistern. I find comfort in the omen I glean from this:… — Alice Hoffman Astronomy Copy Share Image
