Twelve Quote by Alice Hoffman

She didn't like to be talked about. Equally, she didn't like not to be talked about, when the high-minded chatter rushed on as though…

— Anonymous

During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot. To others it might…

— Louisa May Alcott

“She was strength and power and so many things he’d pretended for twelve years he didn’t miss, didn’t need.”

— Natalie J. Damschroder

She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.

— Kim Edwards

In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“By the time she was fifteen, the age she was the day of the shipwreck, opinions by the dozen landed in each hollow track…

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was…

— Terry Pratchett

“Since thirteen, she’d been preparing. She wasn’t beautiful like these Bayhead Harbor girls, but it was surprising how men sometimes looked at her. More…

— Joyce Carol Oates

She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could…

— Tove Jansson

She was plain and far from skinny or petite. As for parties...she'd rather be alone in a corner somewhere reading. She hated being nice…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.

— Liane Moriarty

She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She…

— Christine Feehan