Top 500 Alice Hoffman Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn’t have to speak to be understood.”

— Alice Hoffman

102. “I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.”

— Alice Hoffman

103. “Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.”

— Alice Hoffman

104. “Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn’t that the point? Happily ever after doesn’t mean happy forever. The ever after, what precisely was that? Your dreams, your life, your death, your everything. Was it the blank space that went on without us? The forever after we were gone?”

— Alice Hoffman

105. “You can’t dispute the ridiculous. You can’t argue reasonably with evil.”

— Alice Hoffman

106. “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.”

— Alice Hoffman

107. “You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this.”

— Alice Hoffman

108. “Know that the only remedy for love is to love more.”

— Alice Hoffman

109. “Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.”

— Alice Hoffman

110. “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

111. “What is meant to be is bound to happen, whether or not you approve.”

— Alice Hoffman

112. “I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?”

— Alice Hoffman

113. “Writing itself was a magical act in which imagination altered reality and gave form to power.”

— Alice Hoffman

114. “Remember what I’ve told you. Remember me.”

— Alice Hoffman

115. “The more you feel, the stronger you are.”

— Alice Hoffman

116. “Goodness, in their opinion, was not a virtue but merely spinelessness and fear disguised as humility.”

— Alice Hoffman

117. “The only way to understand a river is to jump into it.”

— Alice Hoffman

118. “My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.”

— Alice Hoffman

119. “Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.”

— Alice Hoffman

120. “What’s done cannot be undone. What’s set into motion takes on a life of its own.”

— Alice Hoffman

121. “Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn’t exist. We met before we were born and we’ll probably still know each other after we die. At least, that’s the way we’re planning it.”

— Alice Hoffman

122. “She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He’s like a dragon, ancient and fearless.”

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Alice Hoffman

124. “Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you’re left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.”

— Alice Hoffman

125. “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.”

— Alice Hoffman

126. “They sat in the light of a lantern and drank cups of Courage Tea, a blend of currants, spices, and thyme, made for protection and healing, a mixture that needed to steep for a long time. It was an elixir that made it clear one should never hide who one was. That was the first step toward courage. In this way, magic began.”

— Alice Hoffman

127. “I never even believed in happiness. I didn’t think it existed. Now look at me. I’m ready to believe in just about anything.”

— Alice Hoffman

128. “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.”

— Alice Hoffman

129. “Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.”

— Alice Hoffman

130. “She didn’t like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she’d been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.”

— Alice Hoffman

131. “He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.”

— Alice Hoffman

132. “There are none who can fight as fiercely as a mother and a daughter, and none who can forgive more completely.”

— Alice Hoffman

133. “This is how you begin in this world. These are the lessons to be learned. Drink chamomile tea to calm the spirit. Feed a cold and starve a fever. Read as many books as you can. Always choose courage. Never watch another woman burn. Know that love is the only answer.”

— Alice Hoffman

134. “My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.”

— Alice Hoffman

135. “Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn’t that the point? Happily ever after doesn’t mean happy forever.”

— Alice Hoffman

136. “This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.”

— Alice Hoffman

137. “That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.”

— Alice Hoffman

138. “It was a moment made of glass, this happiness; it was the easiest thing in the world to break. Every minute was a world, every hour a universe.”

— Alice Hoffman

139. “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.”

— Alice Hoffman

140. “People will disappoint you with their cruelty every time.”

— Alice Hoffman

141. “My breath came out in a fog and rose into the milky sky. Snow fell on my eyelashes, and all of Brooklyn turned white, a world in a globe. Every snowflake that I caught was a miracle unlike any other.”

— Alice Hoffman

142. “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

143. “What else is there to write about than love and loss?”

— Alice Hoffman

144. “A woman who knows what she wants, Adelle always told me, is likely to receive it.”

— Alice Hoffman

145. “Just because something is unspoken doesn’t mean that it disappears.”

— Alice Hoffman

146. “Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.”

— Alice Hoffman

147. “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.”

— Alice Hoffman

148. “Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.”

— Alice Hoffman

149. “Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.”

— Alice Hoffman

150. “We make our own fate,” Jet said, and then all at once she realized that they did. They could not control it, but they could choose how to respond to what happened.”

— Alice Hoffman