Top 500 Alice Hoffman Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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

203. “I think growing up is difficult and it’s a process that I’m always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.”

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Alice Hoffman

206. “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

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

— Alice Hoffman

208. “I would have drowned without you to watch over me... I now understand there are a thousand ways to drown, and a thousand ways to rescue someone.”

— Alice Hoffman

209. “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

210. “What men yearn for they often destroy.”

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Alice Hoffman

212. “Put us in a jar, she thought. Put us in eternity.”

— Alice Hoffman

213. “Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.”

— Alice Hoffman

214. “Sometimes words spoken are the ones you’ve been afraid to think, but once they’re said aloud there’s no way to make them disappear.”

— Alice Hoffman

215. “For what you can fix, there are a hundred remedies. For what cannot be cured, not even words will do.”

— Alice Hoffman

216. “I thought about how it was impossible to forget, no matter how hard anyone might try.”

— Alice Hoffman

217. “The craft was dangerous and unpredictable, and witches were difficult to control, for they had minds of their own and didn’t hold to keeping to the law.”

— Alice Hoffman

218. “People say if you face your worst fear, the rest is easy, but those are people who are afraid of rattlesnakes or enclosed spaces, not of themselves and the horrible things they’ve done.”

— Alice Hoffman

219. “He opened his eyes for an instant. Other people were writing and melting, but my brother stopped his flight long enough to look at me. An instant that would have to last forever. And then the flames rose higher and my brother was gone.”

— Alice Hoffman

220. “I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.”

— Alice Hoffman

221. “The truth frightens people because it isn’t stable. It shifts every day. If you’d prefer to remain in the dark, I would understand.”

— Alice Hoffman

222. “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

223. “Love more, her aunt had said. Not less.”

— Alice Hoffman

224. “Butter melting on a dish meant someone nearby was in love, and a bird in the house take your bad luck out the window.”

— Alice Hoffman

225. “People said love was the antidote to hate, that it could mend what was most broken, and give hope in the most hopeless of times.”

— Alice Hoffman

226. “They believed that remembering someone could bring them back to you long after they had departed, if you only concentrated hard enough, if you stood outside on a windy night and tried to count every star sprinkled across the universe like rice on a table or stones in a lake, like bones in a body or snowdrops in the grass.”

— Alice Hoffman

227. “Anything whole can be broken,” Isabelle told her. “And anything broken can be put back together again. That is the meaning of Abracadabra. I create what I speak.”

— Alice Hoffman

228. “Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.”

— Alice Hoffman

229. “What was a demon but a lost soul, one that had been forced to use his skills to survive.”

— Alice Hoffman

230. “They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I’m interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women’s stories are all kind of combined.”

— Alice Hoffman

231. “A decade or two on the rocks gives a person character. Although she’d never believe it, those lines in Gillian’s face are the most beautiful part about her. They reveal what she’s gone through and what she’s survived and who exactly she is, deep inside.”

— Alice Hoffman

232. “The lonelier you are, the more you pull away, until humans seem an alien race, with customs and a language you can’t begin to understand.”

— Alice Hoffman

233. “But children can tell when love has been lost, they know when silence means peace and when it’s a sign of despair.”

— Alice Hoffman

234. “In good time every secret must be shared and every miracle called into question.”

— Alice Hoffman

235. “Never look at other people’s bad fortune,′ my mother said. ‘If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.”

— Alice Hoffman

236. “My expectations of what I wanted in a man I learned from a dog: loyalty and kindness.”

— Alice Hoffman

237. “The garden was burning, the air sparked with specks of flame as they say it will be in the World-to-Come when we walk beside the angels and have no fear of their illuminations or of their might.”

— Alice Hoffman

238. “There is the outside of a story, and the inside of a story... One is the fruit and may be delicious, but the other is the seed.”

— Alice Hoffman

239. “You never know what you want or need until you are old, for old age is a mystery that is impossible to unwind until you step into its maze.”

— Alice Hoffman

240. “Truth felt light and green, but a lie sunk to the floor, heavy as metal, a substance she always avoided for it made her feel as though she was trapped behind bars.”

— Alice Hoffman

241. “When you help others, your own troubles aren’t as heavy. In fact, you can fold them like a handkerchief and place them in your pocket. They’re still there, but they’re not the only thing you carry.”

— Alice Hoffman

242. “The best way to die is when your living.”

— Alice Hoffman

243. “Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.”

— Alice Hoffman

244. “My father told us that our people had been slaves in the desert and because God had seen fit to set us free, none among us should ever own another man. It had been written that every man belonged to God and no one else. But did women belong to God or to the men of their family? They could not own property or businesses; only their husbands could have that honor.”

— Alice Hoffman

245. “In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.”

— Alice Hoffman

246. “Life is beautiful, just very unfair.”

— Alice Hoffman

247. “Don’t worry. I’m not afraid of words.”

— Alice Hoffman

248. “Such was the case with most unhappy students; they avoided even one another, so intent on their own unhappiness they failed to notice the other lost souls around them.”

— Alice Hoffman

249. “I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.”

— Alice Hoffman

250. “Her one salvation was the novels she read. On nights when she thought it might be better not to be alive without Levi in the world, she opened a book and was therefore saved, discovering that a novel was as great an escape as any spell. She.”

— Alice Hoffman