But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness.” — Alice Hoffman Darkness Copy Share Image
Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep. — Alice Hoffman Dark Copy Share Image
Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws? — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Love wasn't rational; there was no proof that it even existed outside of people's imaginings.” — Alice Hoffman Love Copy Share Image
“I understood that fate could not be eluded forever; it came on leathery wings, swooping through the darkness like the bats in… — Alice Hoffman Darkness Copy Share Image
“Fate could twist you around and around if you weren't careful. Just when you thought you knew where you were headed, you'd… — Alice Hoffman Fate Copy Share Image
Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm… — Alice Hoffman Books Copy Share Image
“Perhaps what people said was true, that any man who lived long enough would eventually realize that the way in which he… — Alice Hoffman Blessing Copy Share Image
All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like… — Alice Hoffman Book Copy Share Image
Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to… — Alice Hoffman Children Copy Share Image
“Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to catch it,… — Alice Hoffman Future Copy Share Image
Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out, and a lie is always a… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“They'll never meet him. They'll never know that its actually possible for a boy to be so boring you'd agree to kiss… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
She knows where she's going, and what she has to do. She could, after all, find her way to Route 95 South… — Alice Hoffman Dark Copy Share Image
I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment.… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“He opened his eyes for an instant. Other people were writing and melting, but my brother stopped his flight long enough to… — Alice Hoffman Brother Copy Share Image
I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and… — Alice Hoffman Beauty Copy Share Image
Abra DeMadrigal didn't look young enough to be my sister anymore. Her sorrow weighed her down and aged her. She was still… — Alice Hoffman Beautiful Copy Share Image
“She said this world was a hole of darkness, of black light and evil and loss. But if that were true, there… — Alice Hoffman Darkness Copy Share Image
My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel. — Alice Hoffman Cold Copy Share Image
I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in… — Alice Hoffman Fiction Copy Share Image
“What you are able to dream you are able to grow, she says to me. If you don't believe in it, it… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows a white blackbird is nothing more than a ghost, a shadow of what it ought to be.” — Alice Hoffman Ghost Copy Share Image
He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go… — Alice Hoffman Ability Copy Share Image
When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always. — Alice Hoffman Love Copy Share Image
Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote. — Alice Hoffman Love Copy Share Image
“I am not an idiot. It's just that sometimes there are things that I don't want to know.” — Alice Hoffman Idiot Copy Share Image
“She had lost some of who she was when she lost her beloved.” — Alice Hoffman Beloved Copy Share Image
I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved. — Alice Hoffman Book Copy Share Image
“She said she wanted a man like that, someone who understood sorrow, not someone who caused it.” — Alice Hoffman Sorrow Copy Share Image
“Do as you will, but harm no one. What you give will be returned to you threefold. Fall in love whenever you… — Alice Hoffman Fall in love Copy Share Image
If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun. — Alice Hoffman Attention Copy Share Image
“Only now did I realize what the hermit was telling me, that love was never a regret.” — Alice Hoffman Hermit Copy Share Image
