I thought you were supposed to be the champion of your people,' I said. I live because I need to do that.… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge… — 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 Copy Share Image
He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If… — 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
It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was… — 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
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 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
Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep,those haunted by one thing or another:love thwarted, love lost, love… — Alice Hoffman 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 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
I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." Books… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn’t help but notice which… — Alice Hoffman 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 Copy Share Image
Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? — 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
