Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“...she wonders if she has something other people don't. Intuition or hope -- she wouldn't know what to call it.” — Alice Hoffman Intuition Copy Share Image
“In the human world you had to choose your loyalties carefully. You had to see through to someone's heart.” — Alice Hoffman Loyalties Copy Share Image
“I never once stopped to consider that what you are given can also be taken away.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness.” — Alice Hoffman Darkness Copy Share Image
“Love wasn't rational; there was no proof that it even existed outside of people's imaginings.” — Alice Hoffman Love Copy Share Image
“How had love come to this? This twisted dark place. The phone calls, the fear, the look on his face when he… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“To friendship,” she agreed, although for the longest time they didn’t let go of each other and she knew exactly what he… — Alice Hoffman Fate Copy Share Image
“...a time that is is neither day nor night, when the veil of illusion is thinner and we can see things in… — Alice Hoffman Illusion Copy Share Image
“These were the times when children dreamed about nuclear testing and falling stars. There was an undercurrent of unrest, like a wave,… — Alice Hoffman Around the world Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Jones leaned in close. She smelled of wool and peppermint. "There's a man somewhere who wanted you to believe in something...” — Alice Hoffman Smell Copy Share Image
“If a ghost were to consider climbing in the window, or seeping through the plaster, he might think twice about facing Maria.” — Alice Hoffman Ghost Copy Share Image
“A fortuneteller at a magicians' convention in Atlantic City once told him that when he fell in love it would be forever,… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“That spring he found the old bear, dead, in one of the caves. He slept beside the body. He dreamed the bear… — Alice Hoffman Parenting Copy Share Image
“Helplessness and anger make for predictable behavior: Children are certain to shove each other and pull hair, teenagers will call each other… — Alice Hoffman Anger Copy Share Image
Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it… — Alice Hoffman Angel Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Dale was a good woman, Hollis will grant her that. A busybody and a pain in the neck, but she never… — Alice Hoffman Good woman Copy Share Image
“In the dining hall of the home, Stella had seen so much death, that one Saturday morning she’d been compelled to sink… — Alice Hoffman Death Copy Share Image
“Like the rabbi with the red circle, she should have said "no" to everything. She should have become a raven. She didn't… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“He's nothing fierce or terrible or filled with light. He's like us, sometimes we can't even tell him apart. Sometimes we're the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“You ever put your arms out and spin really, really fast ? Well, that's what loves like. It makes your heart race.… — Alice Hoffman Love Copy Share Image
“They believed that remembering someone could bring them back to you long after they had departed, if you only concentrated hard enough,… — Alice Hoffman Across the universe Copy Share Image
I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws? — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep. — Alice Hoffman Dark Copy Share Image
People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“A book doesn't live when it's written. It lives when it's read.” — Alice Hoffman Book Copy Share Image
“He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had.” — 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 Another world Copy Share Image
But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Will her husband love her?” “Would you want love you had to buy?” Isabelle asked.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Well, maybe that's what love is, as state of mind ready to grace anyone willing to accept it. Anyone who cares.” — Alice Hoffman Love Copy Share Image
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals… — Alice Hoffman Book Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one… — Alice Hoffman Book Copy Share Image
