Top 500 Alice Hoffman Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “People will disappoint you with their cruelty every time.”

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Alice Hoffman

153. “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

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

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Alice Hoffman

156. “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

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

— Alice Hoffman

158. “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

159. “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

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

— Alice Hoffman

161. “If you are loved, you never lose the person who loved you. You carry them with you all your life.”

— Alice Hoffman

162. “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

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

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

— Alice Hoffman

167. “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

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

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Alice Hoffman

170. “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

171. “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

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

— Alice Hoffman

173. “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

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

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Alice Hoffman

177. “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

178. “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

179. “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

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

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Alice Hoffman

182. “He’d thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.”

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Alice Hoffman

185. “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

186. “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

187. “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

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

— Alice Hoffman

189. “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

190. “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

191. “Demons were said to be cruel, but a demon would never have been so brutal as this. A demon merely called you by name, threw his arms around you, whispered his plight, understood yours, then took you for his own.”

— Alice Hoffman

192. “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

193. “From the very start, Sally has been lying to herself, telling herself she can handle anything, and she doesn’t want to lie anymore. One more lie and she’ll be truly lost. One more and she’ll never find her way back through the woods.”

— Alice Hoffman

194. “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

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

— Alice Hoffman

196. “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

197. “Tell a witch to go, and she’ll plant her feet on the ground and stay exactly where she is. Instead of doing as she’s told, she’ll take a knife to her arm and let her blood drip onto the ground, and in that way she will claim the earth for herself and for her daughters and for all the daughters who follow her. It is the future she’s claiming, the right to be a woman who can do as she pleases.”

— Alice Hoffman

198. “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

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

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Alice Hoffman