“They believed all books should be read, for as long as the reader liked.” — Alice Hoffman Book Copy Share Image
Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by — Alice Hoffman Love Copy Share Image
Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“He could burn her up alive; he could do it in a minute flat, and that's not easy to forget.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“She’s not a demon, she’s a woman,” my mother said sadly. “In this case, that’s worse.” — Alice Hoffman Mother Copy Share Image
“But try as you might to protect people from danger, you cannot keep them from their true nature.” — Alice Hoffman Danger Copy Share Image
“You are my armor and my sword, my faith and my treasure, everything I'm fighting for.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Into this cake Lila had baked three gifts: a cool hand to test for fevers, a kiss with the power to chase… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were… — Alice Hoffman Friendship Copy Share Image
At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Here you are," Shelby tells Buddy. "So now you know, she's not coming back. Not if you wait for a hundred years.… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a… — Alice Hoffman Books Copy Share Image
“She thought she could have what she wanted; she thought she could see the world from above, as if it were a… — Alice Hoffman Desires Copy Share Image
“Eddie had come to understand that what a man saw and what actually existed in the natural world often were contradictory. The… — Alice Hoffman Natural world Copy Share Image
“The children on the playground all heard her. They took off running together, as far away as possible from Antonia Owens, who… — Alice Hoffman Aunts Copy Share Image
When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“she clutched her purse and was completely composed, gracefully accepting people’s sympathies, but when they started to shovel the dirt over old… — Alice Hoffman Grief Copy Share Image
“The most glorious hour in Manhattan was when twilight fell in sheets across the Great Lawn. Bands of blue turned darker by… — Alice Hoffman Cherry trees Copy Share Image
“Haylin was given a good talking-to by the headmaster and made to write a paper about workers’ rights, which he considered a… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Men think about right and wrong, they have to debate it, discuss it, draw upon possibilities and statistics, laws and codes. Wolves… — Alice Hoffman Brothers and sisters Copy Share Image
“It was the farm they'd bought down at the edge of the Cape ... The very edge of the world, ... It… — Alice Hoffman City life Copy Share Image
“Listen carefully. Listen and you'll hear everything you need to know. a nightmare is a different case entirely, it's a box of… — Alice Hoffman First sight Copy Share Image
“He took the narrow stairs two at a time all the way to the first floor. He then went out through the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“ We know what we need when we get it, Brock Stewart had once said. Elinor understood this to be true whenever… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Blue must be worn for protection. Moonstones were useful in connecting with the living, topaz to contact the dead. Copper, sacred to… — Alice Hoffman Life Copy Share Image
“... but where do we go?"(Elinor) "I used to think there was a plan, a rough plan, but a plan all the… — Alice Hoffman Life after death Copy Share Image
