Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than… — 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
I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control… — 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
In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
My grandmother told me once that when you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well, but that's not… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
It doesnt matter what people tell you. It doesnt matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read… — 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
