All Alice Hoffman Quotes
- Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more. Funny
- This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be… Awful
- That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward. Backward
- It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you. Distance
- Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of… Believe
- In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never… Adrift
- He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky. Eternity
- Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms. Arms
- Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met… Act
- Before she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on the countertop, then hooped his fingers through hers. Gretel… All
- It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too. Beautiful
- I could hardly get a boy to look at me. All right, they'd look, they'd even take me out, but no one asked for a… All
- ...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie. Afternoon
- The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of… Across
- She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless. Air
- When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and… Around Bare
- Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs. Black
- Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones. Bones
- A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man. Boy
- They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eyes closed he would often… Already Knew
- We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal. Eternal
- I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed. Anyone
- Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words. Another World
- Young Sally Owens: He will hear my call a mile away. He will whistle my favorite song. He can ride a pony backwards. Young Gillian… Air
- I have crossed over to a place where I never thought Iād be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream.… Body