Top 500 Alice Hoffman Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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.”

— Alice Hoffman

152. “Mothers always find ways to fit in the work – but then when you’re working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you’re with your children, you’re thinking about working.”

— Alice Hoffman

153. “But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God’s glory comes to us from His will alone.”

— Alice Hoffman

154. “With every step I wished myself away to another life, one lived far from here.”

— Alice Hoffman

155. “I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.”

— Alice Hoffman

156. “But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say ‘No. I disagree.’ that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.”

— Alice Hoffman

157. “Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it – the information just disappears out of my head.”

— Alice Hoffman

158. “But chains made out of blood and memory were a thousand times more difficult to sever than those made of steel, and the past could overtake a person if she wasn’t careful.”

— Alice Hoffman

159. “If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.”

— Alice Hoffman

160. “Some people can’t be warned away from disaster, you can try, you can put up every alert, but they’ll still go their own way.”

— Alice Hoffman

161. “All the same, there were some things they needed to learn. Do not drink milk after a thunderstorm, for it will certainly be sour. Always leave out seed for the birds when the first snow falls. Wash your hair with rosemary. Drink lavender tea when you cannot sleep. Know that the only remedy for love is to love more.”

— Alice Hoffman

162. “That is how you know you’ve left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.”

— Alice Hoffman

163. “I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled.”

— Alice Hoffman

164. “It was a miracle to live as birds do, except for one thing: anyone seen in flight would surely be captured, perhaps even shot down like a crow flying above a cornfield. It’s always dangerous to be different, to appear as a monster in most people’s eyes, even from a distance.”

— Alice Hoffman

165. “If every life is a river, then it’s little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea.”

— Alice Hoffman

166. “Never watch another woman burn.”

— Alice Hoffman

167. “Do people choose the art that inspires them – do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.”

— Alice Hoffman

168. “She is surrounded by stalks of dahlias, orange and yellow and pale red, with leaves so big you could write your life story on each one. She looks like a flower in the garden, just like her mother said.”

— Alice Hoffman

169. “Fourth time’s the charm,” she says to people who ask her what the secret of a happy marriage is, but that’s not the way she feels about it. 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

170. “Love was never a mistake, even when it wasn’t returned.”

— Alice Hoffman

171. “What looked empty was full, much like water in a cup. What was most important was invisible to the eye.”

— Alice Hoffman

172. “I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.”

— Alice Hoffman

173. “What you send out comes back to you threefold. What you give to the world returns in kind. Blood begets blood.”

— Alice Hoffman

174. “It’s not the lie that’s the problem; it’s the distance the lie forges between you.”

— Alice Hoffman

175. “Other people’s judgments were meaningless unless you allowed them to mean something.”

— Alice Hoffman

176. “We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we’d never loved them, as if they’d never walked and talked and burned, forgetting them was the real evil. That was the hole of darkness.”

— Alice Hoffman

177. “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.”

— Alice Hoffman

178. “Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.”

— Alice Hoffman

179. “Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.”

— Alice Hoffman

180. “I just stored up my hurts, as if they were a tower made of fallen stars, invisible to most people, but brightly burning inside of me.”

— Alice Hoffman

181. “There is the outside of a story, and there is the inside of a story, he told me as we sat in his library one afternoon. One is the fruit and may be delicious, but the other is the seed.”

— Alice Hoffman

182. “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

183. “All of the quarters in his hand were tarnished. He had no idea that the silver in a man’s pockets always turns black if he kisses a witch.”

— Alice Hoffman

184. “You are the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all we needed. For that, and for a thousand other things, I send my gratitude.”

— Alice Hoffman

185. “Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.”

— Alice Hoffman

186. “Love is not always under our control.”

— Alice Hoffman

187. “He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.”

— Alice Hoffman

188. “I had lost my mother and my father and my sister, and sometimes when I caught a glimpse of myself in a shop window, I wondered if perhaps I hadn’t lost myself as well.”

— Alice Hoffman

189. “My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible.”

— Alice Hoffman

190. “When you are young you are looking forward and when you are old you are looking back.”

— Alice Hoffman

191. “Well, maybe that was fate. Maybe she was meant to be alone. She was a runner, and wasn’t that the habit of a person who preferred to be on her own?”

— Alice Hoffman

192. “He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.”

— Alice Hoffman

193. “I’m at the point where going forward is easier than going back.”

— Alice Hoffman

194. “Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.”

— Alice Hoffman

195. “Every woman is only one bad boyfriend or one bad choice away from the street. And she’s only one good choice back to the path that will lead her home.”

— Alice Hoffman

196. “Franny whispered to Haylin all that she ever was and had been. She told him that she had always known what the future would be, and he said that if what she said was true, then she should have known a very long time ago that this was meant to be.”

— Alice Hoffman

197. “I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.”

— Alice Hoffman

198. “Unable are the Loved to die, for Love is Immortality,” Jet said, quoting Emily Dickinson.”

— Alice Hoffman

199. “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.”

— Alice Hoffman

200. “If anything, love was like light, illuminating what no one would have ever guessed was there in the darkness.”

— Alice Hoffman