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Alice Hoffman Quote: “I’d thrown my fate away once, and I would never again allow other people’s opinions rule my life. As a girl I’d done what was necessary, but I was a girl no longer. Adelle.”

451. “I’d thrown my fate away once, and I would never again allow other people’s opinions rule my life. As a girl I’d done what was necessary, but I was a girl no longer. Adelle.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “He wondered why it was only when you were at the end of your life that it was possible to view it with honesty and truth.”

452. “He wondered why it was only when you were at the end of your life that it was possible to view it with honesty and truth.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “In the dark morning light, her gray eyes look completely green, as though they belonged to a cat that can see in the dark.”

453. “In the dark morning light, her gray eyes look completely green, as though they belonged to a cat that can see in the dark.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “Some creatures do not care how polite a person might be, they will hurt you for no reason, and then all you can do is heal yourself with whatever ingredients are necessary.”

454. “Some creatures do not care how polite a person might be, they will hurt you for no reason, and then all you can do is heal yourself with whatever ingredients are necessary.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “Let her wake as when she close her eyes. That was all Jenny asked for. That was all she begged for on this March night that was perfectly equal to the day, unique in all the season. Let her be the same sweet girl, unburdened by gifts or sorrow.”

455. “Let her wake as when she close her eyes. That was all Jenny asked for. That was all she begged for on this March night that was perfectly equal to the day, unique in all the season. Let her be the same sweet girl, unburdened by gifts or sorrow.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “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.”

456. “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.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “She kissed him first, and all the rest followed.”

457. “She kissed him first, and all the rest followed.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “But I was not a mouse. In the fields where I walked, I was much more interested in the actions of the hawks.”

458. “But I was not a mouse. In the fields where I walked, I was much more interested in the actions of the hawks.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “She’d bought a blue notebook in the pharmacy to write down her aunt’s remedies. Star tulip to understand dreams, bee balm for a restful sleep, black mustard seed to repel nightmares, remedies that used essential oils of almond or apricot or myrrh from thorn trees in the desert. Two eggs, which must never be eaten, set under a bed to clean a tainted atmosphere. Vinegar as a cleansing bath. Garlic, salt, and rosemary, the ancient spell to cast away evil.”

459. “She’d bought a blue notebook in the pharmacy to write down her aunt’s remedies. Star tulip to understand dreams, bee balm for a restful sleep, black mustard seed to repel nightmares, remedies that used essential oils of almond or apricot or myrrh from thorn trees in the desert. Two eggs, which must never be eaten, set under a bed to clean a tainted atmosphere. Vinegar as a cleansing bath. Garlic, salt, and rosemary, the ancient spell to cast away evil.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “Maybe he understands that saying thank you can be just as hard as saying good-bye.”

460. “Maybe he understands that saying thank you can be just as hard as saying good-bye.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “In two weeks a man could completely refashion his history; he could walk all the way to Ohio or Iowa, change his name and his accent, disappear into another life. In the woods, footprints faded, the wind rose up to disperse of clothing, flesh became grass.”

461. “In two weeks a man could completely refashion his history; he could walk all the way to Ohio or Iowa, change his name and his accent, disappear into another life. In the woods, footprints faded, the wind rose up to disperse of clothing, flesh became grass.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “If she wanted to enter an otherworld, all she had to do was open a novel.”

462. “If she wanted to enter an otherworld, all she had to do was open a novel.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “Lust was a story I knew. There were many women I took to bed for the night. I yearned for them in the moment, but in the morning, any lover Id had was already claimed by the past, even if she was still calling my name.”

463. “Lust was a story I knew. There were many women I took to bed for the night. I yearned for them in the moment, but in the morning, any lover Id had was already claimed by the past, even if she was still calling my name.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “And what of monsters? Can they love too? We know quite well they can. For we know that they do.”

464. “And what of monsters? Can they love too? We know quite well they can. For we know that they do.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “That’s still the best reading experience: falling in love with a book I meet by accident.”

465. “That’s still the best reading experience: falling in love with a book I meet by accident.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “People expected certain things of me: assistance, silence, comfort. They had no idea who I was.”

466. “People expected certain things of me: assistance, silence, comfort. They had no idea who I was.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “You walk into the dark and the darkness abides within you.”

467. “You walk into the dark and the darkness abides within you.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “Whoever gives his true self away does do with words.”

468. “Whoever gives his true self away does do with words.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “She had told me often enough to keep my mouth shut, and now I did exactly that. I abolished all language on the day of my father’s funeral.”

469. “She had told me often enough to keep my mouth shut, and now I did exactly that. I abolished all language on the day of my father’s funeral.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “It was so much easier to see another person’s future than it was to understand your own. Even when you kept your eyes wide open, the world would surprise you.”

470. “It was so much easier to see another person’s future than it was to understand your own. Even when you kept your eyes wide open, the world would surprise you.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “She has an eye for tragedy and sorrow. Show her a rose and she’ll see only the wasp in the center of the bloom.”

471. “She has an eye for tragedy and sorrow. Show her a rose and she’ll see only the wasp in the center of the bloom.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “If there be a cure, seek till you find it. If there be none, never mind it.”

472. “If there be a cure, seek till you find it. If there be none, never mind it.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “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.”

473. “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.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “But when it comes to most skills, failure is the only way to become better at something. Knitting teaches you that. You may have to unwind all of your stitches and start anew. That doesn’t mean you’ve wasted your time. You learn from every stitch, even those that don’t amount to anything. All writers should be made to knit a hat before they start writing a novel. It would help with understanding the importance of revision, and that the process is what can bring you the most.”

474. “But when it comes to most skills, failure is the only way to become better at something. Knitting teaches you that. You may have to unwind all of your stitches and start anew. That doesn’t mean you’ve wasted your time. You learn from every stitch, even those that don’t amount to anything. All writers should be made to knit a hat before they start writing a novel. It would help with understanding the importance of revision, and that the process is what can bring you the most.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “When you fall in love like that, time doesn’t matter. This was the secret he told Maria, the last words he ever said. What belonged to you once, will always belong to you. Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another’s heart in your hand.”

475. “When you fall in love like that, time doesn’t matter. This was the secret he told Maria, the last words he ever said. What belonged to you once, will always belong to you. Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another’s heart in your hand.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “I KNEW I MUST do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a long-ago ancestor. Perhaps my mind was inflamed from the books I had read and the worlds I had imagined.”

476. “I KNEW I MUST do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a long-ago ancestor. Perhaps my mind was inflamed from the books I had read and the worlds I had imagined.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “On some nights it was best to remember the past, and not shut it in a drawer. Three hundred years ago people believed in the devil. They believed if an incident could not be explained, then the cause was something wicked, and that cause was often a woman who was said to be a witch. Women who did as they pleased, women with property, women.”

477. “On some nights it was best to remember the past, and not shut it in a drawer. Three hundred years ago people believed in the devil. They believed if an incident could not be explained, then the cause was something wicked, and that cause was often a woman who was said to be a witch. Women who did as they pleased, women with property, women.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “Life is trouble, brother. You’ve got to fight for what you want.”

478. “Life is trouble, brother. You’ve got to fight for what you want.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “She begged for time to stop, for clocks to break, for every star to remain fixed. But none of that happened.”

479. “She begged for time to stop, for clocks to break, for every star to remain fixed. But none of that happened.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “This is what happens when you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is no longer your own.”

480. “This is what happens when you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is no longer your own.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “You can get addicted to trouble if you’re not careful.”

481. “You can get addicted to trouble if you’re not careful.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “In the dining hall of the home, Stella had seen so much death, that one Saturday morning she’d been compelled to sink down onto the linoleum floor, overwhelmed not so much by the sorrow of it all, but by the human dignity, the almost supernatural ability to face the abyss and still order scrambled eggs and toast for breakfast.”

482. “In the dining hall of the home, Stella had seen so much death, that one Saturday morning she’d been compelled to sink down onto the linoleum floor, overwhelmed not so much by the sorrow of it all, but by the human dignity, the almost supernatural ability to face the abyss and still order scrambled eggs and toast for breakfast.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “What is a daughter but good fortune, as complicated as she might be.”

483. “What is a daughter but good fortune, as complicated as she might be.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “It was easy to lie to people who still believed in the truth.”

484. “It was easy to lie to people who still believed in the truth.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “It is simply the way of the world to lose everything you have ever loved. In this, we are like everyone else.”

485. “It is simply the way of the world to lose everything you have ever loved. In this, we are like everyone else.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “She knows now that when you don’t lose yourself in the bargain, you find you have double the love you started with, and that’s one recipe that can’t be tampered with.”

486. “She knows now that when you don’t lose yourself in the bargain, you find you have double the love you started with, and that’s one recipe that can’t be tampered with.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered “Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.”

487. “I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered “Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “Who can you trust if not your sister? Who knows your story better than she? If you saw one Owens sister at the grocery, the other would be right beside her. If one was working in the garden, making certain the rows of herbs were weeded, her sister would be there as well, carrying a basket to collect the dandelion greens.”

488. “Who can you trust if not your sister? Who knows your story better than she? If you saw one Owens sister at the grocery, the other would be right beside her. If one was working in the garden, making certain the rows of herbs were weeded, her sister would be there as well, carrying a basket to collect the dandelion greens.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “I have wondered all my life what I am made of, if there is a straw inside of me, or a beating heart, or if I simply burned for all I did not have.”

489. “I have wondered all my life what I am made of, if there is a straw inside of me, or a beating heart, or if I simply burned for all I did not have.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “It helped to write things down. It ordered your thoughts and if you were lucky revealed feelings you didn’t know you had.”

490. “It helped to write things down. It ordered your thoughts and if you were lucky revealed feelings you didn’t know you had.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “For a man tells you who he is the instant you meet him, all you have to do is listen.”

491. “For a man tells you who he is the instant you meet him, all you have to do is listen.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “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.”

492. “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.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “I fear myself more than I fear any bear,′ Emily blurted. It was the way she’d felt in her aloneness, the comfort she took in being on the mountain.”

493. “I fear myself more than I fear any bear,′ Emily blurted. It was the way she’d felt in her aloneness, the comfort she took in being on the mountain.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “Nathaniel Hawthorne had placed the w in his name to distance himself from his cruel ancestor, his writing driven by his desire to make amends for all the evil his great-great-grandfather had done in the world.”

494. “Nathaniel Hawthorne had placed the w in his name to distance himself from his cruel ancestor, his writing driven by his desire to make amends for all the evil his great-great-grandfather had done in the world.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “Shelby is brutally honest. That’s why Maravelle likes her. Maravelle is brutally honest too. You can’t have many friends if you act that way, but you can depend on the ones you have.”

495. “Shelby is brutally honest. That’s why Maravelle likes her. Maravelle is brutally honest too. You can’t have many friends if you act that way, but you can depend on the ones you have.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “Any weapon touched by a woman, even by accident, must be cleansed with both water and prayer so that her essence would not linger, diverting the warrior who might use it next, for even the faintest touch could bring lust to that man’s heart. Perhaps that meant a woman who was well trained in arms would be the superior warrior, her attention never wavering from her task.”

496. “Any weapon touched by a woman, even by accident, must be cleansed with both water and prayer so that her essence would not linger, diverting the warrior who might use it next, for even the faintest touch could bring lust to that man’s heart. Perhaps that meant a woman who was well trained in arms would be the superior warrior, her attention never wavering from her task.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “I knew that men told you the truth for one of two reasons: when they wished to be rid of what they couldn’t bear to carry, or when they wished to include you in what they knew so their stories wouldn’t be lost.”

497. “I knew that men told you the truth for one of two reasons: when they wished to be rid of what they couldn’t bear to carry, or when they wished to include you in what they knew so their stories wouldn’t be lost.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “Things without all remedy should be without regard. But what you can cure, do so willingly. What ails the human body and soul may be difficult to diagnose, but just as often there is a simple resolution. Black pepper for aching muscles, linden root and yarrow for high blood pressure, feverfew for migraines, ginger for motion sickness, watercress to ease labored breathing, vervain to quiet the pangs of unrequited love.”

498. “Things without all remedy should be without regard. But what you can cure, do so willingly. What ails the human body and soul may be difficult to diagnose, but just as often there is a simple resolution. Black pepper for aching muscles, linden root and yarrow for high blood pressure, feverfew for migraines, ginger for motion sickness, watercress to ease labored breathing, vervain to quiet the pangs of unrequited love.”

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quote: “All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them – much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.”

499. “All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them – much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.”

— Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman Quote: “You once said that just as anything whole can be broken, anything broken can be put back together again.”

500. “You once said that just as anything whole can be broken, anything broken can be put back together again.”

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