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
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
Love was like rain: it turned into ice, or it disappeared. Now you saw it, now you couldn't find it no matter… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Certain things need not be said, and there’s nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price,… — 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
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
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
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or… — 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
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
What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink… — 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
