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
“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
“I'd been bitten by a lion, but you had to look inside me to see the scar.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“She’s not a demon, she’s a woman,” my mother said sadly. “In this case, that’s worse.” — Alice Hoffman Mother Copy Share Image
You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“But try as you might to protect people from danger, you cannot keep them from their true nature.” — Alice Hoffman Danger Copy Share Image
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or… — Alice Hoffman Books Copy Share Image
He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking… — Alice Hoffman Dream 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
Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss,… — Alice Hoffman 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
When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“She thought she could have what she wanted; she thought she could see the world from above, as if it were a… — Alice Hoffman Desires Copy Share Image
“Eddie had come to understand that what a man saw and what actually existed in the natural world often were contradictory. The… — Alice Hoffman Natural world Copy Share Image
“The children on the playground all heard her. They took off running together, as far away as possible from Antonia Owens, who… — Alice Hoffman Aunts Copy Share Image
“What he was doing was actually a hundred times worse. He was telling her that he loved her, something he hadn't mentioned… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Haylin was given a good talking-to by the headmaster and made to write a paper about workers’ rights, which he considered a… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The most glorious hour in Manhattan was when twilight fell in sheets across the Great Lawn. Bands of blue turned darker by… — Alice Hoffman Cherry trees Copy Share Image
My grandmother told me once that when you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well, but that's not… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“You are my armor and my sword, my faith and my treasure, everything I'm fighting for.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“He could burn her up alive; he could do it in a minute flat, and that's not easy to forget.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors. — Alice Hoffman Books Copy Share Image
Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I feel like my eyes are killing me at the end of the day and that I shouldn't use them. — Alice Hoffman End of the day Copy Share Image
“Is there more to the story?” Vincent asked. “There’s more to every story,” his aunt told him.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away. — Alice Hoffman Giving Copy Share Image
“Her vision was going, but she could see him, the way people see clouds-beautiful, racing by, casting shadows.” — Alice Hoffman Beauty Copy Share Image
This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories. — Alice Hoffman Feminism Copy Share Image
“History is personal, Gwen understands that now. All you are seeing is what's before you, the rest is guesswork.” — Alice Hoffman Guesswork Copy Share Image
Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by — Alice Hoffman Love Copy Share Image
