“What’s done cannot be undone. What’s set into motion takes on a life of its own.” — Alice Hoffman Life Copy Share Image
Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them. — Alice Hoffman Memory Copy Share Image
“All that will ever be has already been written long before it happens. There is nothing we can do to stop it.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“You’re so rebellious as it is.” “I am not!” Franny said with her customary defiance” — Alice Hoffman Defiance Copy Share Image
Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows. — Alice Hoffman Grief Copy Share Image
“The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Love could do that to some people and they wouldn't even know much they'd missed out on; they simply remained in the… — Alice Hoffman Love Copy Share Image
What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I knew the power of a single wish, after all. Invisible and inevitable, like a butterfly that beats its wings in one… — Alice Hoffman Butterfly effect Copy Share Image
“All this kissing was making her crazy; it was reminding her of what she could feel, and how it could be when… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Truth felt light and green, but a lie sunk to the floor, heavy as metal, a substance she always avoided for it… — Alice Hoffman Heart Copy Share Image
“I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of… — Alice Hoffman Regret Copy Share Image
“Pete wondered if the endings of things gathered in the corners of a room, hanging down like a spider's web, waiting.” — Alice Hoffman Spider Copy Share Image
“This was the way love walked in, barely dressed, confused, panic-stricken, overcome, not caring what anyone thought or what they believed.” — Alice Hoffman Love Copy Share Image
It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than… — Alice Hoffman Acting 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
“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 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
“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
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
“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
“Those boys at the counter are too dreamy and young to do anything but drool as they watch Gillian. And, to her… — Alice Hoffman Growing older Copy Share Image
I thought you were supposed to be the champion of your people,' I said. I live because I need to do that.… — Alice Hoffman Battle Copy Share Image
“Sometimes they'd be there for over an hour, the woman pointing out the catalpa trees, the sparrows, the streetlights,the porch, the little… — Alice Hoffman Heart Copy Share Image
“Somewhere there was a book of love, with all the symptoms written down in red ink: Dizziness and Desire. A tendency to… — Alice Hoffman Books Copy Share Image
“Somehow, what they'd had was already over, and she hadn't even been aware of the end. This happened with roses: it was… — Alice Hoffman Bare branches Copy Share Image
“Love has made him surprise himself. He would never have believed it possible, but it's turned out that he is a man… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“At the heart of his paper was the notion that fairy tales relieved us of our need for order and allowed us… — Alice Hoffman Across the universe Copy Share Image
“WITCHES TAKE THEIR NAMES FROM PLACES, for places are what give them their strength. The place need not be beautiful, or habitable,… — Alice Hoffman Witch Copy Share Image
