I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use… — 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
“She wishes she had time to run around the block once or twice; maybe then she wouldn't feel as if she were… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Before they knew it, time would speed up and the future would appear on a street corner or in a park, and… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“In no time the perennial borders were thick with rosy-pink foxglove and cream-colored lilies, each of which hung like a pendant, collecting… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Life is a mystery, and it should be so, for the sorrow that accompanies being human and the choices one will have… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“...a time that is is neither day nor night, when the veil of illusion is thinner and we can see things in… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I did my best to pretend it wasn't so. ... I didn't have time to be ill. Now I know you can't… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Children would beg for a peppermint drop each time he walked into town, and they'd follow behind, asking for a second and… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“She wishes nightmares were all that kept her awake. She cannot tell which disturbs here more, the future or the past.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“...and from then on whenever he smells lilacs he'll think about this moment. How the bees were circling above him, how purple… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“April certainly wasn’t the first person to have fallen for Vincent, or the first to be wounded by his indifference. She’d been… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
When I read Jerome D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" that was the first time I felt my mind blow open.… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It was the time when the field mice ventured out, after the hawks had settled in the trees but before the owls… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Franny whispered to Haylin all that she ever was and had been. She told him that she had always known what the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“To friendship,” she agreed, although for the longest time they didn’t let go of each other and she knew exactly what he… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It was a moment made of glass, this happiness; it was the easiest thing in the world to break. Every minute was… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“He took the narrow stairs two at a time all the way to the first floor. He then went out through the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head — 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
