Top 500 Alice Hoffman Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn’t unknow.”

— Alice Hoffman

52. “Here lies the life I might have had once upon a time, the man I might have loved for all my life, the days we might have had.”

— Alice Hoffman

53. “When you have lost your mother you have lost the world.”

— Alice Hoffman

54. “One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her. She was so busy forgetting, she couldn’t take a single step into the future.”

— Alice Hoffman

55. “All that will ever be has already been written long before it happens. There is nothing we can do to stop it.”

— Alice Hoffman

56. “Every step I took hurt, I walked on daggers, on hot blue fire. Not holding him was like not breathing, not being quite alive. As.”

— Alice Hoffman

57. “How lucky they’d been to be raised by women who taught them what was most important in this world. Read as many books as you can. Choose courage over caution. Take time to visit libraries. Look for light in the darkness. Have faith in yourself. Know that love is what matters most.”

— Alice Hoffman

58. “The evening had turned sweet and blue.”

— Alice Hoffman

59. “She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse. There was something that come between Emily and other people, a white linen curtain, hazy. It made the world quieter and farther away, although occasionally she could see through to the other side.”

— Alice Hoffman

60. “She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.”

— Alice Hoffman

61. “The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.”

— Alice Hoffman

62. “Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.”

— Alice Hoffman

63. “The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.”

— Alice Hoffman

64. “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.”

— Alice Hoffman

65. “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.”

— Alice Hoffman

66. “A halo around the moon is always a sign of disruption, either a change in the weather, a fever to come, or a streak of bad fortune that won’t go away. But when it’s a double ring, all tangled and snarled, like an agitated rainbow or a love affair gone wrong, anything can happen.”

— Alice Hoffman

67. “The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.”

— Alice Hoffman

68. “Fate is what you make it, or you will be what it makes of you.”

— Alice Hoffman

69. “Love was like that, like a dream you didn’t quite understand, one in which you didn’t necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you.”

— Alice Hoffman

70. “When you change your name you change your fate as well.”

— Alice Hoffman

71. “My mother’s blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.”

— Alice Hoffman

72. “I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.”

— Alice Hoffman

73. “I wasn’t good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.”

— Alice Hoffman

74. “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.”

— Alice Hoffman

75. “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.”

— Alice Hoffman

76. “I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.”

— Alice Hoffman

77. “Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who’ve been in love with the wrong man too often.”

— Alice Hoffman

78. “Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?”

— Alice Hoffman

79. “What makes a dangerous woman, however, was not always so apparent, for what is unnoticeable to the human eye is often the most deadly attribute.”

— Alice Hoffman

80. “The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.”

— Alice Hoffman

81. “Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.”

— Alice Hoffman

82. “It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.”

— Alice Hoffman

83. “People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?”

— Alice Hoffman

84. “She was so busy forgetting, she couldn’t take a single step into the future.”

— Alice Hoffman

85. “People want to ignore what they can’t understand. They’re looking for logic at any cost.”

— Alice Hoffman

86. “It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.”

— Alice Hoffman

87. “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

88. “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.”

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Alice Hoffman

90. “Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don’t think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.”

— Alice Hoffman

91. “I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.”

— Alice Hoffman

92. “Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you’ve had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.”

— Alice Hoffman

93. “I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there’s a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.”

— Alice Hoffman

94. “Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.”

— Alice Hoffman

95. “I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It’s always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.”

— Alice Hoffman

96. “Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.”

— Alice Hoffman

97. “That’s the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.”

— Alice Hoffman

98. “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.”

— Alice Hoffman

99. “Once upon a time I was young and beautiful. But that is the fairy tale, because it all passes in the blink of an eye.”

— Alice Hoffman

100. “Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I’d always felt safer with stories than with flesh and blood.”

— Alice Hoffman