“This was the way love walked in, barely dressed, confused, panic-stricken, overcome, not caring what anyone thought or what they believed.” — Alice Hoffman Love Copy Share Image
“Pete wondered if the endings of things gathered in the corners of a room, hanging down like a spider's web, waiting.” — Alice Hoffman Spider Copy Share Image
“I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Interesting, but she could see that the boy didn't have a single lie in him. A very rare condition, especially for the… — Alice Hoffman Lying Copy Share Image
“Shelby is brutally honest. That’s why Maravelle likes her. Maravelle is brutally honest too. You can’t have many friends if you act… — Alice Hoffman Brutally honest Copy Share Image
“I thought perhaps I had been wrong, too quick to judge the essence of a being by its appearance, still not fully… — Alice Hoffman Change Copy Share Image
“At midnight the wind in the trees can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as… — Alice Hoffman Midnight Copy Share Image
The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below.… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“She said this world was a hole of darkness, of black light and evil and loss. But if that were true, there… — Alice Hoffman Darkness Copy Share Image
I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and… — Alice Hoffman Beauty Copy Share Image
Abra DeMadrigal didn't look young enough to be my sister anymore. Her sorrow weighed her down and aged her. She was still… — Alice Hoffman Beautiful Copy Share Image
“He opened his eyes for an instant. Other people were writing and melting, but my brother stopped his flight long enough to… — Alice Hoffman Brother Copy Share Image
“They may be nothing like you, he had written, they may surprise you, they may even repel you when their behavior is… — Alice Hoffman Children Copy Share Image
“For six months I did what women do: I waited. This is what women are taught to be good at. It's said… — Alice Hoffman Life Copy Share Image
Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. The… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It had made her too helpless, because that's what love did. There was no way around it and no way to fight… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Some things are best remembered the way you want to remember them, like this road, these stars, this girl right beside him… — Alice Hoffman Cold night Copy Share Image
“It’s for your own good,” she said tenderly. “All I want for you is a normal life.” “Mother,” Franny sighed. “What makes… — Alice Hoffman Life Copy Share Image
What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Some people know the exact moment when they've lost everything. They can look back and see it plain as day and for… — Alice Hoffman Life Copy Share Image
“People really could be one way outside, when inside they were torn to shreds, a fine white powder of grief and regret… — Alice Hoffman Death Copy Share Image
“Her salvation was the novels she read. On nights she thought it might br better not to be alive w/o Levi in… — Alice Hoffman Books Copy Share Image
“Hochman had been right, the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep… — Alice Hoffman Destiny Copy Share Image
“How wonderful to say whatever you wanted without having to go over it in your mind, again and again, to make certain… — Alice Hoffman Psychology Copy Share Image
“(Love) walks up to you,and when it does, you need to recognize it for what it is and, perhaps more important, for… — Alice Hoffman Love Copy Share Image
“Butter melting on a dish meant someone nearby was in love, and a bird in the house take your bad luck out… — Alice Hoffman Bad luck Copy Share Image
“What did we know about those closest to us, really? No one ever dared to speak plainly about desire; no one said… — Alice Hoffman Desire Copy Share Image
I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Anything whole can be broken,” Isabelle told her. “And anything broken can be put back together again. That is the meaning of… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It was a clear, bright, beautiful day, the air tinged with salt, the climbing roses blooming. The graveyard was filled with sunlight.” — Alice Hoffman Beautiful day Copy Share Image
“...even though she felt a wave of dread. If they knew she was nervous, she'd be at their mercy. But if they… — Alice Hoffman Compassion Copy Share Image
“The stars are reflected from within the black water in the cistern. I find comfort in the omen I glean from this:… — Alice Hoffman Astronomy Copy Share Image
The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe — Alice Hoffman Adults Copy Share Image
I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A… — Alice Hoffman Body Copy Share Image
Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around.… — Alice Hoffman Children Copy Share Image
“She wishes nightmares were all that kept her awake. She cannot tell which disturbs here more, the future or the past.” — Alice Hoffman Heart Copy Share Image
Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our… — Alice Hoffman Desire Copy Share Image
“It was a moment made of glass, this happiness; it was the easiest thing in the world to break. Every minute was… — Alice Hoffman Fragility Copy Share Image
