Top 100 Alice Hoffman Quotes
#1. I'm a huge fan of Alice Hoffman, Fred Chappell and Susan Elizabeth Phillips.
Sarah Addison Allen
#2. 'The Dovekeepers' is a fantastic novel written by Alice Hoffman; it was a bestselling novel, and I fell in love with the book and bought the rights to it.
Roma Downey
#3. He had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go."
From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102.
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#4. That's still the best reading experience: falling in love with a book I meet by accident.
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#5. Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.
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#6. 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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#7. For a very long time I believed that when we left our home, we left my mother as well. Where our village had stood the burned fields would again become green and her flesh would be in every blade of grass.
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#8. Sally ... can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.
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#9. 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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#10. He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.
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#11. I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'
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#12. He knew even at an early age of seven, how dangerous it was for someone like him to have hope. He knows how to have no expectations. He can completely control not just what he wants, but what he needs
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#13. [Eddie] wondered if every criminal saw himself as the hero of his own story and if every thankless son was convinced he'd been mistreated by his father.
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#14. But at long last she had some privacy and could go more than ten minutes without someone getting in her business, informing her that everything she did was wrong. As if she didn't already know that.
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#15. 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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#16. You can get addicted to trouble if you're not careful.
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#17. That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.
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#18. Certain things need not be said, and there's nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what's about to happen.
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#19. 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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#20. I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
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#21. That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.
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#22. 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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#23. Love is complicated, love can be hidden, love, above all else, is loyalty.
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#24. We grew careless, as people who are lost often do.
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#25. ...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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#26. Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.
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#27. Over the years I had grown attached to it, as men grow attached to their miseries and their burdens.
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#28. You don't need wealth to appreciate something beautiful.
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#29. If you tried to right all the wrongs in the world you'd exhaust yourself in under an hour.
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#30. Love was never a mistake,even when it wasn't returned.
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#31. No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.
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#32. I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.
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#33. He knew exactly how to hit a woman, so that the marks hardly showed. He knew how to kiss her , too, so that her heart began to race and she'd start to think forgiveness with every breath. It's amazing the places that love will carry you. It's astounding to discover just how far you're willing to go.
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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. There was so much light in the world we knew we would never be able to count it all.
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#37. What you are able to dream you are able to grow, she says to me. If you don't believe in it, it can never happen.
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#38. 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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#39. If we had no hurt and no sin to speak of, we'd be angels, and amgels can't love the way men and women do.
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#40. Lucy Green couldn't stop reading. She was a secret reader ...
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#41. But love was not about practice or preparation, it was pure chance; if you took your time with it you ran the risk of having it evaporate before it had even begun
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#42. There were so many stars in the dusky night I could see them falling as I gazed upward into the darkness. They seemed so near, like the Salt Sea in the distance, when they were so far away.
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#44. Men and women rarely speak to each other, though they often talk.
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#45. Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.' ... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.
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#46. 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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#47. I didn't understand that when I closed myself to her, I took a part of her bitterness inside me. It was green and unforgiving, and as it grew it made me more like her. It gave me my strength, but it gave me my weakness as well.
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#48. Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.
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#50. 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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#51. I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.
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#52. He couldn't help but wonder if Moses Levy had experienced this same heat, if true images burned their maker. He wondered, too, if the hermit at that riverside was right, if there wasn't some element of capturing a soul in each photograph, if he wasn't responsible for those whose images he caught.
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#53. Before she can stop herself, she thinks about desire, how it lives within you and yet is separate, surfacing when it chooses, without permission, in the harsh afternoon light, at the moment when you least expect to find it.
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#54. The story became a cloud, and the cloud a sheet of rain, and rain fell throughout the empire.
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#55. Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.
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#56. But now I understood that, although words were God's first creation, silence was closer to His divine spirit, and that prayers given in silence were infinitely greater than the thousands of words men might offer up to heaven.
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#57. 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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#58. Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own.
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#59. One thing I've learned is that strange things do happen. They happen all the time. Today, for instance, my best friend Jill's cat spoke. We were making brownies in the kitchen when we heard it say, 'Let me out.
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#60. What is made of water and fire
for isn't that what a man whose nature opposes his responsibilities can be said to be? Does one quench the other, or do they combine to ignite the depths of the soul?
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#61. If anyone bothered to search through the laurel bordering the asphalt he'd surely find handfuls of teeth that were said to give the laurel its odd milky color, ivory with a pale pink edge, each blossom forming the shape of a bitter man's mouth.
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#62. Sam said, Hey, you want to get high?
Amy had taken his words to mean You are so beautiful I am undone by you.
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#63. He's nothing fierce or terrible or filled with light. He's like us, sometimes we can't even tell him apart. Sometimes we're the ones who try to save him. He's there to show us who we are. Human beings aren't gods. We makes mistakes.
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#64. People will disappoint you with their cruelty every time
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#65. 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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#66. Pete wondered if the endings of things gathered in the corners of a room, hanging down like a spider's web, waiting.
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#67. You know what love is? Maureen said to me that day...it's what you least expect.
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#68. This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul' ... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell,
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#69. 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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#70. Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.
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#71. He backed off, the way he always does, but it won't happen a second time. If he ever sees her again he's going to go right up to her and ask her to marry him, that's what he'll do. He's sick of letting fate roll right past him.
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#72. If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.
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#73. Child of a watcher, an angel who had been called to earth by my mother's beauty
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#74. Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help.
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#75. He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had.
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#76. Your sorrow will become smaller, like a star in the daylight that you can't even see. It's there, shining, but there is also a vast expanse of blue sky.
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#77. If a ghost were to consider climbing in the window, or seeping through the plaster, he might think twice about facing Maria.
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#78. People in the courtroom let loose with their disgust, cursing us, d
ning us, we who had become less than human. Marranos. Pigs.
As for me, I felt something rise in my throat: the horror of the world of men.
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#80. You can only know a friend so well after all. When you come right down to it, even your best friend is a puzzle.
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#81. You had to wonder who all these people in their cars were leaving behind and who they were driving toward, and if they knew that in the distance, the echo of their tires on the asphalt sounded like a river, and that to someone like me, it could seem like the miracle I'd been looking for.
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#82. 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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#83. Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ... 'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.
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#84. If this was what angels observed when they gazed upon our world, how we might murder each other and cause one another agony, then I pitied them as I pitied no others.
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#85. Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.
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#86. He must be an idiot to feel this way, but there's nothing he can do. He doesn't even know if he can manage to speak.
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#87. A woman who knows what she wants, Adelle always told me, is likely to receive it.
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#88. How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I'd had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.
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#89. You are my armour and my sword, my faith and my treasure, everything I'm fighting for.
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#91. I thought he knew me better than most ... Then one nigh Jack brought me flowers, a handful of fading daisies he'd picked up at a farm stand, but flowers all the same. That was the end; that was how he ruined everything.
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#92. I should have begun to worry then, for as fortune comes to you, so does it slip away.
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#93. Ghosts are said to move in the corners of human sight.
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#94. Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss, the forgiveness. It came after you, it escaped you, it was invisible, it was everything.
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#95. When a star reaches for you, it is difficult to look away.
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#96. Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.
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#97. 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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#98. It's not easy. It never is. That is the secret our parents fail to tell us, out of kindness and love, but it's a secret we need to know. Everything that begins, ends. Everything beautiful disappears.
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#99. 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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#100. Perhaps in the cold my heart would freeze and I would care nothing for those I was forced to abandon.
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