I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses… — Alice Hoffman Fall in love Copy Share Image
“This was what it was. The ruin of it. The depth of it. Have it once and you can have it again.… — Alice Hoffman Riddle Copy Share Image
I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a… — Alice Hoffman Book Copy Share Image
“In no time the perennial borders were thick with rosy-pink foxglove and cream-colored lilies, each of which hung like a pendant, collecting… — Alice Hoffman Flowers Copy Share Image
I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things… — Alice Hoffman Emotional Copy Share Image
I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent… — Alice Hoffman Communication Copy Share Image
I could hardly get a boy to look at me. All right, they'd look, they'd even take me out, but no one… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It was a warm and breezy day, too warm for Sally's heavy clothes, so she draped her coat over her arm. The… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Once I knew nothing about McKay and now I knew everything about him. This seemed as good as any reason for not… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I knelt by the fire to make certain there were no burning embers left. That was when I spied the tracks of… — Alice Hoffman Lion Copy Share Image
Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the… — Alice Hoffman August Copy Share Image
“He backed off, the way he always does, but it won't happen a second time. If he ever sees her again he's… — Alice Hoffman Fate Copy Share Image
Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small… — Alice Hoffman Business Copy Share Image
“Someone killed himself because of me once, Meredith said. People kill themselves because of what's inside of them, not because of other… — Alice Hoffman Meredith Copy Share Image
“Fuck you,” Sally says. She tosses the words off, easy as butter in her mouth, but in fact she doesn't think she's… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Shut up and do not think. All the theorists agree: shut up and keep the words from being said. And all of… — Alice Hoffman Scars Copy Share Image
She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“One thing I've learned is that strange things do happen. They happen all the time. Today, for instance, my best friend Jill's… — Alice Hoffman Best friend Copy Share Image
“Before they knew it, time would speed up and the future would appear on a street corner or in a park, and… — Alice Hoffman Grown women Copy Share Image
I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered "Cousin,… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I had never before noticed that rain contained every color within itself, green as the fields, blue as heaven, white as a… — Alice Hoffman Children Copy Share Image
“Life is a mystery, and it should be so, for the sorrow that accompanies being human and the choices one will have… — Alice Hoffman Burden Copy Share Image
When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight… — Alice Hoffman Adolescence Copy Share Image
Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in… — Alice Hoffman Butterfly Copy Share Image
“As for me, sleep was a country I no longer visited, despite my incantation. When I did, I wished for my waking… — Alice Hoffman Life Copy Share Image
“Every man engaged in war tells himself he can alter what has been written, that it is he, not God, who is… — Alice Hoffman Destiny Copy Share Image
I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." Books… — Alice Hoffman Book Copy Share Image
“At first it appeared as if something with wings had fallen from above... perhaps an angel who had faltered then drowned, in… — Alice Hoffman Angel Copy Share Image
This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not… — Alice Hoffman Earth Copy Share Image
“I started to feel as though I were disappearing. Perhaps I myself was figment of my own imagination, a storm cloud, a… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“All of the quarters in his hand were tarnished. He had no idea that the silver in a man’s pockets always turns… — Alice Hoffman Silver Copy Share Image
“My mother was teaching me that the inside of something was not necessarily its outside. Always look carefully, she told me. Look… — Alice Hoffman Eyes Copy Share Image
The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across… — Alice Hoffman Astronomy Copy Share Image
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