He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Before she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on the countertop, then hooped his fingers… — Alice Hoffman 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
I could hardly get a boy to look at me. All right, they'd look, they'd even take me out, but no one… — Alice Hoffman 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 Copy Share Image
If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about… — 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 Copy Share Image
“All of the quarters in his hand were tarnished. He had no idea that the silver in a man’s pockets always turns black if… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It was after dark when the woods were most filled with magic, when there were fireflies and the mist was rising from the streams.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Never look back, that's what she's told herself. Don't think about swans or being alone in the dark. Don't think of storms, or lightning… — Alice Hoffman 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
“She preferred cats to human beings and turned down every offer from the men who fell in love with her.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Her vision was going, but she could see him, the way people see clouds-beautiful, racing by, casting shadows.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“...the summer of the gypsy moths when all the trees in their yard were bare, the leaves chewed by caterpillars. You could hear crunching… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
