All Alice Hoffman Quotes
- I thought you were supposed to be the champion of your people,' I said. I live because I need to do that. For anyone who… Anyone
- We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as… Burned
- Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It… All
- My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel. Cold
- I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones… All
- Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow. Blood
- The evening had turned sweet and blue. Blue
- He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one. All
- Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them. Forget
- It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to… Acting
- Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think. All
- When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always. Funny
- When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure. All
- She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place… All
- The best way to die is when your living Best
- Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done. Bike
- Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done. Always Comes
- They weren't true stories; they were better than that. Better
- My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." -… Aunt
- I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back. Easier
- What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing… Believe
- You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out… All
- Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected. Every Problem
- Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of… Back Makes
- Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure. Appear