Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me.… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man." — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Interesting, but she could see that the boy didn't have a single lie in him. A very rare condition, especially for the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below.… — 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
Any weapon touched by a woman, even by accident, must be cleansed with both water and prayer so that her essence would… — Alice Hoffman 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 Copy Share Image
Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our… — 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
