It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too. — Alice Hoffman Beautiful Copy Share Image
“I never once stopped to consider that what you are given can also be taken away.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“...she wonders if she has something other people don't. Intuition or hope -- she wouldn't know what to call it.” — Alice Hoffman Intuition Copy Share Image
Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“In the human world you had to choose your loyalties carefully. You had to see through to someone's heart.” — Alice Hoffman Loyalties Copy Share Image
“She's not a demon, she's a woman. In this case, that's worse.” — Alice Hoffman Demon Copy Share Image
“You were the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all… — Alice Hoffman Love Copy Share Image
I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled — Alice Hoffman Coming home Copy Share Image
I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Here you are," Shelby tells Buddy. "So now you know, she's not coming back. Not if you wait for a hundred years.… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a… — Alice Hoffman Books Copy Share Image
I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were… — Alice Hoffman Friendship Copy Share Image
At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or… — Alice Hoffman Chance Copy Share Image
“My breath came out in a fog and rose into the milky sky. Snow fell on my eyelashes, and all of Brooklyn… — Alice Hoffman Brooklyn Copy Share Image
“You watch teenage girls and feel shivers up and down your arms -- those poor creatures don't know the first thing about… — Alice Hoffman Suffering Copy Share Image
Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When… — Alice Hoffman Family Copy Share Image
“The music of your youth stays with you and winds itself around your heart. I hear one chord of "Strawberry Fields Forever"… — Alice Hoffman Best friend Copy Share Image
A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“She’d bought a blue notebook in the pharmacy to write down her aunt’s remedies. Star tulip to understand dreams, bee balm for… — Alice Hoffman Dreams Copy Share Image
“April certainly wasn’t the first person to have fallen for Vincent, or the first to be wounded by his indifference. She’d been… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“This was the purest instant he had ever experienced; the way he felt inside right then. If he had to be trapped… — Alice Hoffman Drinking whiskey Copy Share Image
“Franny whispered to Haylin all that she ever was and had been. She told him that she had always known what the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Senator Kennedy from Massachusetts had won in the closest presidential election since 1916. Hatless and handsome, he had given people faith in… — Alice Hoffman Acceptance speech Copy Share Image
“Maybe he understands that saying thank you can be just as hard as saying good-bye.” — Alice Hoffman Goodbye Copy Share Image
“I had swallowed my share of bitterness, but a portion had stuck in my throat and turned to rage.” — Alice Hoffman Anger Copy Share Image
“You should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind.” — Alice Hoffman Honor Copy Share Image
Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being. — Alice Hoffman Being broken Copy Share Image
“Your grand daughter may not be looking for trouble, but trouble is looking for her.” — Alice Hoffman Children Copy Share Image
“A book doesn't live when it's written. It lives when it's read.” — Alice Hoffman Book Copy Share Image
People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals… — Alice Hoffman Book Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Well, maybe that's what love is, as state of mind ready to grace anyone willing to accept it. Anyone who cares.” — Alice Hoffman Love Copy Share Image
“Will her husband love her?” “Would you want love you had to buy?” Isabelle asked.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words. — Alice Hoffman Another world Copy Share Image
“He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
