Top 500 Alice Hoffman Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Books may well be the only true magic.”

— Alice Hoffman

2. “Once you know some things, you can’t unknow them. It’s a burden that can never be given away.”

— Alice Hoffman

3. “Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.”

— Alice Hoffman

4. “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.”

— Alice Hoffman

5. “Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.”

— Alice Hoffman

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6. “I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.”

— Alice Hoffman

7. “You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.”

— Alice Hoffman

8. “Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you’re gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.”

— Alice Hoffman

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9. “Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.”

— Alice Hoffman

10. “Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.”

— Alice Hoffman

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11. “No one knows you like a person with whom you’ve shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.”

— Alice Hoffman

12. “Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”

— Alice Hoffman

13. “That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.”

— Alice Hoffman

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14. “There’s a little witch in all of us.”

— Alice Hoffman

15. “Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.”

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Alice Hoffman

17. “When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you’re with me always.”

— Alice Hoffman

18. “Still, I couldn’t help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren’t meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were. And what we remember.”

— Alice Hoffman

19. “My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who’s different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.”

— Alice Hoffman

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20. “When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.”

— Alice Hoffman

21. “Midsummer’s Eve, the summer solstice, when the day is so long it seems for once there is all the time in the world.”

— Alice Hoffman

22. “Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he’ll love you forever isn’t finished with you until he’s done.”

— Alice Hoffman

23. “We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.”

— Alice Hoffman

24. “It doesn’t matter what people tell you. It doesn’t matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you’re headed in the exact right direction.”

— Alice Hoffman

25. “How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.”

— Alice Hoffman

26. “You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you’re not really there.”

— Alice Hoffman

27. “Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.”

— Alice Hoffman

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28. “The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.”

— Alice Hoffman

29. “She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.”

— Alice Hoffman

30. “You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can’t listen to everyone.”

— Alice Hoffman

31. “Sometimes, running away means you’re headed in the exact right direction.”

— Alice Hoffman

32. “There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.”

— Alice Hoffman

33. “It’s not finding what’s lost, it’s understanding what you’ve found.”

— Alice Hoffman

34. “They weren’t true stories; they were better than that.”

— Alice Hoffman

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35. “Love is complicated, love can be hidden, love, above all else, is loyalty.”

— Alice Hoffman

36. “You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you’re dreaming of butterflies.”

— Alice Hoffman

37. “I’m much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing.”

— Alice Hoffman

38. “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.”

— Alice Hoffman

39. “We are only an instant, that’s true. But we are eternal.”

— Alice Hoffman

40. “I just do the best I can to face what life brings. That’s the secret, you know. That’s the way you change your fate.”

— Alice Hoffman

41. “And then I understood that she had no idea what she’d done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.”

— Alice Hoffman

42. “Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.”

— Alice Hoffman

43. “I was making a different sort of heart, one that was black, one that was protected by thorns, by bats, by raven’s wings, by sorrow, by my aloneness, my armour.”

— Alice Hoffman

44. “I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.”

— Alice Hoffman

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45. “What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map of an individual’s soul.”

— Alice Hoffman

46. “I knew the power of a single wish, after all. Invisible and inevitable, like a butterfly that beats its wings in one corner of the globe and with that single action changes the weather halfway across the world.”

— Alice Hoffman

47. “I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.”

— Alice Hoffman

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48. “He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.”

— Alice Hoffman

49. “Even in times when it’s difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art – and books – always help.”

— Alice Hoffman

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50. “Mean people are meaningless.”

— Alice Hoffman