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Time Quotes by Alice Hoffman

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The music of your youth can wind around your heart, a reminder that time always moves, Alice Hoffman writes. She mentions moments when loss is crystal clear, and how wishing for time to run backward shows we’re leaving childhood behind. Her thoughts also note that trying to hold the future makes it slip away.

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This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

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“Don't waste time when there's someone you love.”

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No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.

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My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.

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Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.

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She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.

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I read "The Group" by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time.

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“Why can't people say what they mean at the time?”

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“Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to catch it,…

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I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use…

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My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the…

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“ON JUNE 28, 1969, THE WEATHER WAS HOT, EIGHTY-SEVEN DEGREES, UNUSUAL FOR THE TIME OF YEAR. NEW YORK CITY GREW STEAMY, AS…

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One of my favorites is "Time and Again" by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between…

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“Time wasn't the same anymore. Doors were slamming shut before we even knew they'd been opened. Good fortune can take forever to…

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“...a time that is is neither day nor night, when the veil of illusion is thinner and we can see things in…

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“She wishes she had time to run around the block once or twice; maybe then she wouldn't feel as if she were…

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“You watch teenage girls and feel shivers up and down your arms -- those poor creatures don't know the first thing about…

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I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment.…

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“The music of your youth stays with you and winds itself around your heart. I hear one chord of "Strawberry Fields Forever"…

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“Franny whispered to Haylin all that she ever was and had been. She told him that she had always known what the…

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“April certainly wasn’t the first person to have fallen for Vincent, or the first to be wounded by his indifference. She’d been…

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“...and from then on whenever he smells lilacs he'll think about this moment. How the bees were circling above him, how purple…

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When I read Jerome D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" that was the first time I felt my mind blow open.…

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“There comes a time when every one of our people understands that a Jew can never be attached to a place. The…

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“What he was doing was actually a hundred times worse. He was telling her that he loved her, something he hadn't mentioned…

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“He took the narrow stairs two at a time all the way to the first floor. He then went out through the…

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“As they were falling asleep, Gillian could have sworn she heard Ben say Fate--as if they were meant to be together from…

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“Listen carefully. Listen and you'll hear everything you need to know. a nightmare is a different case entirely, it's a box of…

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I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.

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I can't really work on more than one thing at a time

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That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

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Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head

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“She wishes nightmares were all that kept her awake. She cannot tell which disturbs here more, the future or the past.”

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“It was a moment made of glass, this happiness; it was the easiest thing in the world to break. Every minute was…

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“In no time the perennial borders were thick with rosy-pink foxglove and cream-colored lilies, each of which hung like a pendant, collecting…

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Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help

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“Before they knew it, time would speed up and the future would appear on a street corner or in a park, and…

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“Life is a mystery, and it should be so, for the sorrow that accompanies being human and the choices one will have…

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I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.

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“But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep…

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“It was after dark when the woods were most filled with magic, when there were fireflies and the mist was rising from the streams.”

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This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

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“Her vision was going, but she could see him, the way people see clouds-beautiful, racing by, casting shadows.”

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“...the summer of the gypsy moths when all the trees in their yard were bare, the leaves chewed by caterpillars. You could hear crunching…

“The best way to die is when you're living.”

“Haylin was given a good talking-to by the headmaster and made to write a paper about workers’ rights, which he considered a privilege rather…

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage."…