Top 100 Alice Hoffman Quotes

#1. Nothing could do that to them, that's what they used to whisper as they sat on the back stairs, in the dark and the dust, as if desire were a matter of personal choice.

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#2. I wondered if all creatures were drawn to what was dangerous or if we merely wanted light at any cost and were willing to burn for our desires.

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#3. It was the time when the field mice ventured out, after the hawks had settled in the trees but before the owls came to hunt. The sky was now the color Elv liked best - a tender dark blue, falling to earth like ashes.

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#4. Love like this was all consuming. I found that I was jealous of the strangest things - sunlight, streets, curtains, even her clothing, anything that was close to her.

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#5. Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.

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#6. Love is complicated, love can be hidden, love, above all else, is loyalty.

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#7. ...there was a storm of enormous proportions, with winds so strong that dozens of fish were drawn up from the reedy shallows, then lifted above the village in a shining cloud of scales.

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#8. When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

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#9. Perhaps what people said was true, that any man who lived long enough would eventually realize that the way in which he was cursed was also the blessing he received.

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#10. Love is the one thing that's not easy to find. It's an achievement, Eddie, to feel such a glorious emotion, whether it's returned or not. Some men never do.

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#11. Even though she felt a wave of dread. If they knew she was nervous, she'd be at their mercy. But if they thought she was ice they'd be afraid to touch her.

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#12. I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

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#13. Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

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#14. I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.

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#15. Each morning when I arrive, the doves know me; their song rises and falls with pleasure and acceptance. It is always there, a river of sound.

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#16. I started to feel as though I were disappearing. Perhaps I myself was figment of my own imagination, a storm cloud, a wisp of smoke, a burning ember.

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#17. If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.

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#18. I should have begun to worry then, for as fortune comes to you, so does it slip away.

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#19. When a star reaches for you, it is difficult to look away.

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#20. Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.

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#21. You can never tell about a person by guessing ... that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

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#22. Perhaps in the cold my heart would freeze and I would care nothing for those I was forced to abandon.

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#23. If people aren't there for you now, when you really need them, they never will be, and it's time to move on. You'll be amazed by how many new friends you have in the after. They'll be the ones who aren't afraid of sorrow, who know we can't avoid it. The best we can do is face it together.

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#24. Love like this wasn't what he'd planned or wanted or expected, surely it was indeed a trap, for even when you tried to run away, it followed you through the grass and lay down beside you, it overtook common sense and willpower.

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#25. The stars are reflected from within the black water in the cistern. I find comfort in the omen I glean from this: light in the darkness, truth when it seems there is none.

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#26. The only way to fight evil is with joy,

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#27. I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect.

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#28. Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out,
and a lie is always a lie, no matter how prettily told. Some doors, once they're opened,
can never be closed again, just as some trust, once it's been lost, can never be won back.

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#29. But try as you might to protect people from danger, you cannot keep them from their true nature.

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#30. Unleavened Bread, all

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#31. He has stumbled into love, and now he's stuck there. He's fairly used to not getting what he wants, and he's dealt with it, yet he can't help but wonder if that's only because he didn't want anything too badly.

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#32. Evan's head was filled with the sound of water. He thought of the ghost in the grass, her blue dress and bare feet. He thought of the way the doves had flown up into the sky all in a ruse, startled by gunfire, and then all he could think was that despite everything that happened, he was alive.

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#33. There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas and spelled out in contracts and poems and sighs, in old whispers and song lyrics, in promises and vows.

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#34. There is the outside of a story, and there is the inside of a story, he told me as we sat in his library one afternoon. One is the fruit and may be delicious, but the other is the seed.

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#35. In a novel, you'll find yourself in a world of possibilities. You'll find shelter there.

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#36. They weren't true stories; they were better than that.

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#37. We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

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#38. But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.

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#39. If she wanted to enter an otherworld, all she had to do was open a novel.

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#40. Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

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#41. Once you possess something others do not, you are a target for the wicked.

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#42. Life was beautiful, everyone knew that, but it was also bitter and bleak and unfair as hell and where did that leave a person? On the outs with the rest of the world. Someone who sat alone in the cafeteria, reading, escaping from his hometown simply by turning the page.

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#43. Believers with nothing to believe in.

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#44. I only had access to him when we were together in the library, and I loved them both -the library and my father- equally and without question.

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#45. Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.

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#46. Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

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#47. He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate.
Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent.

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#48. I'm trying to find someone who doesn't want to be found."
"That can be as hard as looking for a shadow.

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#49. A pretty little minnow ... cool as rain, blue as heaven ...

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#50. She begged for time to stop, for clocks to break, for every star to remain fixed. But none of that happened.

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#51. She's beginning to wonder if perhaps she's haunting herself.

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#52. What people called the truth seemed worthless to her; what was it but a furtive, bruised story to convince yourself life was worth living.

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#53. She's not a demon, she's a woman," my mother said sadly. "In this case, that's worse.

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#54. She is surrounded by stalks of dahlias, orange and yellow and pale red, with leaves so big you could write your life story on each one. She looks like a flower in the garden, just like her mother said.

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#55. Fuck you," Sally says. She tosses the words off, easy as butter in her mouth, but in fact she doesn't think she's ever cursed out loud in her own house before.
"Fuck you twice," Gillian says. "You need it more.

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#56. If sparrows were meant to fly, and hawks to hunt, and greyhounds to run, then a boy such as Diamond was meant to search for his mother. If he didn't go, if he forgot or thought of himself first, then he wouldn't be Diamond.

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#57. You should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind.

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#58. He spoke with a raven's voice, old and wise and far above the cruelty of the human race.

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#59. A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.

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#60. At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.

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#61. Sometimes I think we can learn everything we need to know about the world when we read fairy tales. Be careful, be fearless, be honest, leave a trail of crumbs to lead you home again.

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#62. Interesting, but she could see that the boy didn't have a single lie in him. A very rare condition, especially for the male of the species.

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#63. A time that is is neither day nor night, when the veil of illusion is thinner and we can see things in the lilac-tinged light that cannot be spied at any other hour

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#64. Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.

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#65. In my family, a book can be a life raft.

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#66. Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.

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#67. I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.

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#68. I understood wanting to forget. Things that made you remember cut like pieces of glass.

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#69. 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 direction.

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#70. With every step I wished myself away to another life, one lived far from here.

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#71. In good time every secret must be shared and every miracle called into question.

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#72. love was never a regret.

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#73. Then I understood that when someone begins to tell you her story, you are entwined together. Perhaps even more so if the ending hasn't been divulged.

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#74. You were the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all that we needed.

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#75. This was the virtue of the dark: you were who you had always been, only no one could see you.

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#76. Well, maybe that was fate. Maybe she was meant to be alone. She was a runner, and wasn't that the habit of a person who preferred to be on her own?

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#77. Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.

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#78. the logic of fairy tales was that there was no logic: bad things happened to the innocent, children were set out in the woods by their parents, fear walked hand in hand with experience, a wish spoken aloud could make it so. I

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#79. But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind.

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#80. He said God could distinguish a sinner from a sin.

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#81. Everything seemed slow, molasses slow, lovesick slow.

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#82. James had a theory about caged birds, one he hoped to prove when he became a scientist someday. He believed that all birds that had their freedom taken from them eventually lost their voices. Once that happened, they could never find their true song.

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#83. What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.

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#84. Our mother had taught us that when the moon was white, reappearing after its absence, it was showing us that what had been hidden could easily become whole again.

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#85. Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to catch it, hold it in your hand. It disappears every time.

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#86. Life is beautiful, just very unfair.

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#87. Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft.

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#88. I knelt by the fire to make certain there were no burning embers left. That was when I spied the tracks of a lion. There were only a few such beasts left in the desert, but one had come here, answering my call. He had been there all the while, watching over me, before he left me at last.

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#89. Revenge did that to a person; it caused even the insecure and the meek to take foolhardy chances. After a while it became a way of life; the risks felt as natural as drawing a breath.

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#90. I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

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#91. Honesty was like a stone, dropped and irretrievable once it was spoken aloud

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#92. It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.

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#93. He dusted the dough with cumin and coriander and salt before he slid the loaves into the oven on flat wooden boards. Perhaps most important,

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#94. The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.

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#95. In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.

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#96. A breeze had come up and there was the scent of loam in the air. Hay and fertilizer. Sweet grass and wild ginger. April.

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#97. Even with her failing vision, Violet West could see the scars. They had turned purple, almost red, from the icy cold, the color of the pears on the tree in the yard, the color of blood that can't be washed away and of things that can never be undone.

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#98. The garden was burning, the air sparked with specks of flame as they say it will be in the World-to-Come when we walk beside the angels and have no fear of their illuminations or of their might.

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#99. Barzel, what some believe is a combination of letters taken from the names of the matriarchs of Jacob's family, Leah, Rachel, Bilhah, and Zilpah.

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#100. What was a demon but a lost soul, one that had been forced to use his skills to survive.

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