Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure. — Alice Hoffman Funny things Copy Share Image
You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves… — Alice Hoffman Book Copy Share Image
“Dreams came to men for many reasons, both as oracles and as warnings.” — Alice Hoffman Dream Copy Share Image
“I'd been bitten by a lion, but you had to look inside me to see the scar.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“She preferred cats to human beings and turned down every offer from the men who fell in love with her.” — Alice Hoffman Cats Copy Share Image
“...early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills.” — Alice Hoffman Evening sky Copy Share Image
“But the best stories were about their mother, how her hair was as red as blood, how she had seventy-four freckles on… — Alice Hoffman Children Copy Share Image
“She wishes she had time to run around the block once or twice; maybe then she wouldn't feel as if she were… — Alice Hoffman Time Copy Share Image
I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably… — Alice Hoffman Curse Copy Share Image
“I'll pretend to be who they want me to be.' He grinned then, and she saw his youth. 'But it won't work.… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“But now I understood that, although words were God's first creation, silence was closer to His divine spirit, and that prayers given… — Alice Hoffman Prayer Copy Share Image
You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is… — Alice Hoffman Beautiful Copy Share Image
“That just goes to show that you never can tell about a person by guessing," Frances informs her niece. "That's why language… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I… — Alice Hoffman Language Copy Share Image
Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep,those haunted by one thing or another:love thwarted, love lost, love… — Alice Hoffman Despair Copy Share Image
“When Juliet came flying down the hallway, Stella didn't recognize her friend. Juliet hadn't bothered with makeup; she was wearing a nightgown… — Alice Hoffman Friendship Copy Share Image
“There he is, in the fading light, certain of what he wants, certain of her. If Gillian were speaking to her sister,… — Alice Hoffman Fading light Copy Share Image
“The silver trout were so numerous that if every one had turned into a star, the river would have been shining with… — Alice Hoffman Fish Copy Share Image
“He'd already realized that he could not begin to understand the things men did; now he saw women were even harder to… — Alice Hoffman Thinking Copy Share Image
Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to… — Alice Hoffman Baby Copy Share Image
“...and from then on whenever he smells lilacs he'll think about this moment. How the bees were circling above him, how purple… — Alice Hoffman Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Men think about right and wrong, they have to debate it, discuss it, draw upon possibilities and statistics, laws and codes. Wolves… — Alice Hoffman Brothers and sisters Copy Share Image
“It was the farm they'd bought down at the edge of the Cape ... The very edge of the world, ... It… — Alice Hoffman City life Copy Share Image
“Listen carefully. Listen and you'll hear everything you need to know. a nightmare is a different case entirely, it's a box of… — Alice Hoffman First sight Copy Share Image
“He took the narrow stairs two at a time all the way to the first floor. He then went out through the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The burial crew found him at Sara’s grave one day that summer. Without bothering to ask permission from the town council, they… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The bird came to Franny of its own accord, as the birds in Central Park always did, flitting over to perch on… — Alice Hoffman Bird Copy Share Image
“Gary Hallet is getting leg cramps sitting in the Honda, but he’s not going anywhere yet. His grandfather used to tell him… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I only have one story now. The story was heroin. It was made out of sensation, not words; it was invisible and… — Alice Hoffman Blue water Copy Share Image
