This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Fourth time's the charm," she says to people who ask her what the secret of a happy marriage is, but that's not… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Some people know the exact moment when they've lost everything. They can look back and see it plain as day and for… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The music of your youth stays with you and winds itself around your heart. I hear one chord of "Strawberry Fields Forever"… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep… — Alice Hoffman 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 Copy Share Image
One of my favorites is "Time and Again" by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“... hoping that if she just walked down the same street fate would whirl her backward in time until she was once… — 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
“As they were falling asleep, Gillian could have sworn she heard Ben say Fate--as if they were meant to be together from… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“In the last few months, she'd had a lot of time to consider the state of mankind, and she'd decided that people… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“You watch teenage girls and feel shivers up and down your arms -- those poor creatures don't know the first thing about… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I read "The Group" by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Time wasn't the same anymore. Doors were slamming shut before we even knew they'd been opened. Good fortune can take forever to… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Hochman had been right, the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Listen carefully. Listen and you'll hear everything you need to know. a nightmare is a different case entirely, it's a box of… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“These were the times when children dreamed about nuclear testing and falling stars. There was an undercurrent of unrest, like a wave,… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death. — 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
