“But at long last she had some privacy and could go more than ten minutes without someone getting in her business, informing… — Alice Hoffman Business Copy Share Image
Certain things need not be said, and there’s nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price,… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real… Once I got to my… — Alice Hoffman Beauty Copy Share Image
Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss,… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“But the best stories were about their mother, how her hair was as red as blood, how she had seventy-four freckles on… — Alice Hoffman Children Copy Share Image
I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably… — Alice Hoffman Curse Copy Share Image
“She wishes she had time to run around the block once or twice; maybe then she wouldn't feel as if she were… — Alice Hoffman Time Copy Share Image
“She kept a stack of books near the tub so she could read in the bath, even though the edges of the… — Alice Hoffman Books Copy Share Image
“Maria Owens did what she did for a reason. She was young and she thought damning anyone who loved us would protect… — Alice Hoffman Ruin Copy Share Image
“We can offer women what they want most of all, cures for the most common ailments of this world... When children are… — Alice Hoffman Failure Copy Share Image
If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought it merely happened, washing over you like water. It was… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“In the last few months, she'd had a lot of time to consider the state of mankind, and she'd decided that people… — Alice Hoffman Choices 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… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It was amazing how many colors there were, all running into the gutter in a stream: a dozen shades of blue, twenty… — Alice Hoffman Art Copy Share Image
Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the… — Alice Hoffman Art Copy Share Image
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or… — Alice Hoffman Books Copy Share Image
It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me.… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking… — Alice Hoffman Dream Copy Share Image
He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“She thinks of the way angels arrive, when you lease expect them, when the road is dark, when you're bleeding and alone… — Alice Hoffman Angel Copy Share Image
Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“... in the garden where the lilacs were so tall it was impossible to see the road. The leaves were dusty, the… — Alice Hoffman Flower Copy Share Image
“Although she'd never believe it, those lines in Gillian's face are the most beautiful part about her. They reveal what she's gone… — Alice Hoffman Beautiful Copy Share Image
“But now I understood that, although words were God's first creation, silence was closer to His divine spirit, and that prayers given… — Alice Hoffman Prayer Copy Share Image
“I'll pretend to be who they want me to be.' He grinned then, and she saw his youth. 'But it won't work.… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is… — Alice Hoffman Beautiful Copy Share Image
“That just goes to show that you never can tell about a person by guessing," Frances informs her niece. "That's why language… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I… — Alice Hoffman Language Copy Share Image
“Truth felt light and green, but a lie sunk to the floor, heavy as metal, a substance she always avoided for it… — Alice Hoffman Heart Copy Share Image
“All this kissing was making her crazy; it was reminding her of what she could feel, and how it could be when… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I knew the power of a single wish, after all. Invisible and inevitable, like a butterfly that beats its wings in one… — Alice Hoffman Butterfly effect Copy Share Image
“I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of… — Alice Hoffman Regret Copy Share Image
What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Love could do that to some people and they wouldn't even know much they'd missed out on; they simply remained in the… — Alice Hoffman Love Copy Share Image
Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head — Alice Hoffman Book Copy Share Image
“Because love is an act of will. You think it will just happen, but you have to make it so. Even when… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending… — Alice Hoffman Children Copy Share Image
It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It was the time when the field mice ventured out, after the hawks had settled in the trees but before the owls… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
