“I’m fated to lose everyone I ever love,” April said. “I already know that.” “Of course you are,” Jet responded in her… — Alice Hoffman April Copy Share Image
He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted. — Alice Hoffman Disappointment Copy Share Image
After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right… — Alice Hoffman Character Copy Share Image
“I just do the best I can to face what life brings. That’s the secret, you know. That’s the way you change… — Alice Hoffman Fate Copy Share Image
That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“They carried what was holy within them, for every man was a temple, and every prayer spoken could be heard by our… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read… — Alice Hoffman Books Copy Share Image
“She was partial to emeralds; she said they were the single thing that remained constant, always green, always the same...My mother had… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I was not pleased to be sent from my mother, but I occupied myself, a skill learned by children who must sometimes… — Alice Hoffman Children Copy Share Image
Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink… — Alice Hoffman Dutch Copy Share Image
“Revenge did that to a person; it caused even the insecure and the meek to take foolhardy chances. After a while it… — Alice Hoffman Revenge Copy Share Image
Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of… — Alice Hoffman Bad fortune Copy Share Image
“When darkness fell, he told me to close my eyes and dream, for in my dreams I would find another world, and… — Alice Hoffman Another world Copy Share Image
“This is what happens when you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is… — Alice Hoffman Fate Copy Share Image
“What was a siren but a call to your neighbors, a cry that would let them know that grief of one sort… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“They believe that every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.” — Alice Hoffman Problem Copy Share Image
That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Love is ancient and mysterious and you can't mess with it. If you do it just backfires and you meet with disaster.” — alice hoffman Ancient Copy Share Image
“Franny entwined her legs with his. She understood why ancient monsters were often made of two creatures, with two hearts and minds.… — Alice Hoffman Psychology Copy Share Image
“The river runs every shade of blue that has ever been known to humankind: ink and turquoise and lapis, indigo, teal, cerulean,… — Alice Hoffman Blue Copy Share Image
Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the… — Alice Hoffman Childhood Copy Share Image
“Lydia went over and handed him a paper napkin. Conner stared at the napkin as if it were something delivered directly from… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire… — Alice Hoffman Desire Copy Share Image
“...there was a storm of enormous proportions, with winds so strong that dozens of fish were drawn up from the reedy shallows,… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Do you ever get the feeling that your life isn’t really your own, and you’ve just sort of let things happen to… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages,… — Alice Hoffman Cancer Copy Share Image
“Nathaniel Hawthorne had placed the w in his name to distance himself from his cruel ancestor, his writing driven by his desire… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Rules of Magic: Do as you will, but harm no one. What you give will be returned to you threefold. Fall in… — Alice Hoffman Abracadabra Copy Share Image
My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Love like this wasn't what he'd planned or wanted or expected, surely it was indeed a trap, for even when you tried… — Alice Hoffman Discipline Copy Share Image
I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“and behind them came the women, and then the children with sticks and stones in their hands. There was a line of… — Alice Hoffman Children Copy Share Image
“But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep… — Alice Hoffman Battle Copy Share Image
I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“A breeze had come up and there was the scent of loam in the air. Hay and fertilizer. Sweet grass and wild… — Alice Hoffman Flower Copy Share Image
“You don't forget the people you love," she told him. "That's what I've realized. They just get farther away. Like a spyglass… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
