You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“They say the truest beauty is in the harshest land and that God can be found there by those with open eyes.” — Alice Hoffman Beauty Copy Share Image
I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“History is personal . . . All that you are seeing is what's before you, the rest is guesswork.” — Alice Hoffman Guesswork Copy Share Image
“Don't cry while you are reading the book wait until you are done reading it.” — Alice Hoffman Book Copy Share Image
“I would not begin to understand until I was a very old woman, and even then they would still be a mystery.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“But then you like to tempt fate, don’t you? Don’t worry, it will all work out” — Alice Hoffman Destiny Copy Share Image
“You watch teenage girls and feel shivers up and down your arms -- those poor creatures don't know the first thing about… — Alice Hoffman Suffering Copy Share Image
Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or… — Alice Hoffman Chance Copy Share Image
“But can you measure someone's love? I want to know. You think you can measure love? She's kind not to laugh at… — Alice Hoffman Love Copy Share Image
“I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren’t easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often… — Alice Hoffman Adults Copy Share Image
“Demons were said to be cruel, but a demon would never have been so brutal as this. A demon merely called you… — Alice Hoffman Demons Copy Share Image
“Nothing could do that to them, that's what they used to whisper as they sat on the back stairs, in the dark… — Alice Hoffman Desire Copy Share Image
“This was the purest instant he had ever experienced; the way he felt inside right then. If he had to be trapped… — Alice Hoffman Drinking whiskey Copy Share Image
“April certainly wasn’t the first person to have fallen for Vincent, or the first to be wounded by his indifference. She’d been… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“She’d bought a blue notebook in the pharmacy to write down her aunt’s remedies. Star tulip to understand dreams, bee balm for… — Alice Hoffman Dreams Copy Share Image
A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who… — Alice Hoffman Love Copy Share Image
There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“...and from then on whenever he smells lilacs he'll think about this moment. How the bees were circling above him, how purple… — Alice Hoffman Beautiful Copy Share Image
You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we… — Alice Hoffman Beloved Copy Share Image
They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eyes closed… — Alice Hoffman Dog Copy Share Image
“As they were falling asleep, Gillian could have sworn she heard Ben say Fate--as if they were meant to be together from… — Alice Hoffman Falling asleep Copy Share Image
“At night I told myself a story, wordless, inside my head, one I liked far better than those in my books. The… — Alice Hoffman Books Copy Share Image
I thought you were supposed to be the champion of your people,' I said. I live because I need to do that.… — Alice Hoffman Battle Copy Share Image
“Those boys at the counter are too dreamy and young to do anything but drool as they watch Gillian. And, to her… — Alice Hoffman Growing older Copy Share Image
“Sometimes they'd be there for over an hour, the woman pointing out the catalpa trees, the sparrows, the streetlights,the porch, the little… — Alice Hoffman Heart Copy Share Image
“even the most dependable of men will stumble every now and then There are some people who insist that every time one… — Alice Hoffman Personal experience Copy Share Image
