“Anything whole can be broken,” Isabelle told her. “And anything broken can be put back together again. That is the meaning of… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“...even though she felt a wave of dread. If they knew she was nervous, she'd be at their mercy. But if they… — Alice Hoffman Compassion Copy Share Image
“It was a clear, bright, beautiful day, the air tinged with salt, the climbing roses blooming. The graveyard was filled with sunlight.” — Alice Hoffman Beautiful day Copy Share Image
“Butter melting on a dish meant someone nearby was in love, and a bird in the house take your bad luck out… — Alice Hoffman Bad luck Copy Share Image
“What did we know about those closest to us, really? No one ever dared to speak plainly about desire; no one said… — Alice Hoffman Desire Copy Share Image
This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“At midnight the wind in the trees can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as… — Alice Hoffman Midnight Copy Share Image
“Maria Owens did what she did for a reason. She was young and she thought damning anyone who loved us would protect… — Alice Hoffman Ruin Copy Share Image
The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It had made her too helpless, because that's what love did. There was no way around it and no way to fight… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Shelby is brutally honest. That’s why Maravelle likes her. Maravelle is brutally honest too. You can’t have many friends if you act… — Alice Hoffman Brutally honest Copy Share Image
“Interesting, but she could see that the boy didn't have a single lie in him. A very rare condition, especially for the… — Alice Hoffman Lying Copy Share Image
“I thought perhaps I had been wrong, too quick to judge the essence of a being by its appearance, still not fully… — Alice Hoffman Change Copy Share Image
“I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It’s for your own good,” she said tenderly. “All I want for you is a normal life.” “Mother,” Franny sighed. “What makes… — Alice Hoffman Life Copy Share Image
“Some things are best remembered the way you want to remember them, like this road, these stars, this girl right beside him… — Alice Hoffman Cold night Copy Share Image
Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I had never before noticed that rain contained every color within itself, green as the fields, blue as heaven, white as a… — Alice Hoffman Children Copy Share Image
“Life is a mystery, and it should be so, for the sorrow that accompanies being human and the choices one will have… — Alice Hoffman Burden Copy Share Image
I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered "Cousin,… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Before they knew it, time would speed up and the future would appear on a street corner or in a park, and… — Alice Hoffman Grown women Copy Share Image
“One thing I've learned is that strange things do happen. They happen all the time. Today, for instance, my best friend Jill's… — Alice Hoffman Best friend Copy Share Image
She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“He backed off, the way he always does, but it won't happen a second time. If he ever sees her again he's… — Alice Hoffman Fate Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent… — Alice Hoffman Communication Copy Share Image
“Fuck you,” Sally says. She tosses the words off, easy as butter in her mouth, but in fact she doesn't think she's… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Someone killed himself because of me once, Meredith said. People kill themselves because of what's inside of them, not because of other… — Alice Hoffman Meredith Copy Share Image
Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small… — Alice Hoffman Business Copy Share Image
“Shut up and do not think. All the theorists agree: shut up and keep the words from being said. And all of… — Alice Hoffman Scars Copy Share Image
“At first it appeared as if something with wings had fallen from above... perhaps an angel who had faltered then drowned, in… — Alice Hoffman Angel Copy Share Image
This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not… — Alice Hoffman Earth Copy Share Image
“As for me, sleep was a country I no longer visited, despite my incantation. When I did, I wished for my waking… — Alice Hoffman Life Copy Share Image
“Every man engaged in war tells himself he can alter what has been written, that it is he, not God, who is… — Alice Hoffman Destiny 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 Book Copy Share Image
When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight… — Alice Hoffman Adolescence Copy Share Image
Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in… — Alice Hoffman Butterfly Copy Share Image
Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our… — Alice Hoffman Desire Copy Share Image
“It was a moment made of glass, this happiness; it was the easiest thing in the world to break. Every minute was… — Alice Hoffman Fragility 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 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)
