Quote by Alice Hoffman Download Open image ““You’re so rebellious as it is.” “I am not!” Franny said with her customary defiance”” — Alice Hoffman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I felt the need to be rebellious. A woman should have a moment in her life when she’s rebellious, don’t you think?” — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
“So then she had to take it, though still with her defeated protest. "It isn't so much your BEING 'right'--it's your horrible sharp eye for what makes you so." Oh but you're just as bad yourself. You can't resist me when I point that out." She sighed it at last all comically, all tragically, away. "I can't indeed resist you."… — Henry James Copy Share
“She never crosses the street where she's supposed to; she claims it's her rebellious side. People who wait in lines stress her out.” — Audrey Diwan Anne Berest Caroline de Maigret Sophie Mas Copy Share Image
“She phrased it masterfully, displaying a steadiness that was acting as if it were struggling to wrap itself in politeness.” — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“She was ghastly and quite mad, but when I grew up I figured her worst punishment was to be herself and I didn't have… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
“She that will not fight is a coward. She that cannot fight is weak. She that dares not fight is a slave.” — C.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“She couldn’t get free and she couldn’t pop missus on the back of her head with a cane, but she could take her silk.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“It seemed enough for her to just deal with whatever it was that came her way, calmly and without fuss.” — Han Kang Copy Share Image
“Don't be so damned patronizing. Your performance so far has been a little less than dazzling." "I didn't mean no harm," I said and… — Dashiell Hammett 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
