“No one called out my name. Finally, I went to open the door. I could smell burning metal.” — Alice Hoffman Open Door Copy Share Image
“If there be a cure, seek till you find it. If there be none, never mind it.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“What was a demon but a lost soul, one that had been forced to use his skills to survive.” — Alice Hoffman Demon Copy Share Image
Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I'd been bitten by a lion, but you had to look inside me to see the scar.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“She preferred cats to human beings and turned down every offer from the men who fell in love with her.” — Alice Hoffman Cats Copy Share Image
“In Massachusetts everything had a faint green aroma, a combination of cucumber, wisteria, dogwood, and peppermint.” — Alice Hoffman Nature Copy Share Image
“You wanted a blue rose," Brock said. "Didn't you? Wasn't that the whole point?" "Doesn't everyone want what they cannot have?"(Elinor) "Here's… — Alice Hoffman Adventure Copy Share Image
“They might curse you, even despise you for doing so, but it took strong measures to ensure that a boy lived long… — Alice Hoffman Becoming a man Copy Share Image
In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“was in this way that the mother discovered that she still had the will to live, even now, and she was usually… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the… — Alice Hoffman Grandmother Copy Share Image
Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running… — Alice Hoffman Direction Copy Share Image
“Let her wake as when she close her eyes. That was all Jenny asked for. That was all she begged for on… — Alice Hoffman Childhood Copy Share Image
Before she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on the countertop, then hooped his fingers… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“... hoping that if she just walked down the same street fate would whirl her backward in time until she was once… — Alice Hoffman Future Copy Share Image
The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of… — Alice Hoffman Body Copy Share Image
“Amazing where your life can deposit you before you know it. One, two, three, and you're on a completely different road than… — Alice Hoffman Compass Copy Share Image
The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands… — Alice Hoffman Blue Copy Share Image
“Never look back, that's what she's told herself. Don't think about swans or being alone in the dark. Don't think of storms,… — Alice Hoffman Alone in the dark Copy Share Image
“She truly believed that she carried her own fate in the palm of her hand, as if destiny was nothing more than… — Alice Hoffman Destiny Copy Share Image
You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure. — Alice Hoffman Funny things Copy Share Image
I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves… — Alice Hoffman Book Copy Share Image
“Dreams came to men for many reasons, both as oracles and as warnings.” — Alice Hoffman Dream Copy Share Image
Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows. — Alice Hoffman Grief Copy Share Image
“All that will ever be has already been written long before it happens. There is nothing we can do to stop it.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“You’re so rebellious as it is.” “I am not!” Franny said with her customary defiance” — Alice Hoffman Defiance Copy Share Image
“...early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills.” — Alice Hoffman Evening sky Copy Share Image
Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them. — Alice Hoffman Memory Copy Share Image
“What’s done cannot be undone. What’s set into motion takes on a life of its own.” — Alice Hoffman Life Copy Share Image
I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved. — Alice Hoffman Book Copy Share Image
“She had lost some of who she was when she lost her beloved.” — Alice Hoffman Beloved Copy Share Image
