Top 500 Alice Hoffman Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “If you are loved, you never lose the person who loved you. You carry them with you all your life.”

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Alice Hoffman

203. “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

204. “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

205. “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

206. “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

207. “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

208. “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

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

— Alice Hoffman

210. “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

211. “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

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

— Alice Hoffman

213. “She preferred cats to human beings and turned down every offer from the men who fell in love with her.”

— Alice Hoffman

214. “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

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. “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

218. “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

219. “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

220. “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

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

— Alice Hoffman

222. “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

223. “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

224. “Desire had a way of making a person oddly courageous. In the aunts’ opinion, it could sneak up on a grown woman and turn her from a sensible creature into something as foolish as a flea that keeps chasing after the same old dog.”

— Alice Hoffman

225. “When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.”

— Alice Hoffman

226. “In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars.”

— Alice Hoffman

227. “Each morning when I arrive, the doves know me; their song rises and falls with pleasure and acceptance. It is always there, a river of sound.”

— Alice Hoffman

228. “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

229. “Any institution becomes a community – whether it’s a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.”

— Alice Hoffman

230. “Whoever knows you when you are young can look inside you and see the person you once were, and maybe still are at certain times.”

— Alice Hoffman

231. “Maria Owens did what she did for a reason. She was young and she thought damning anyone who loved us would protect us. But what she had with that terrible man wasn’t love. She didn’t understand that when you truly love someone and they love you in return, you ruin your lives together. That is not a curse, it’s what life is, my girl. We all come to ruin, we turn to dust, but whom we love is the thing that lasts.”

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Alice Hoffman

233. “I’m fated to lose everyone I ever love,” April said. “I already know that.” “Of course you are,” Jet responded in her calm, measured tone. “That’s what it means to be alive.”

— Alice Hoffman

234. “The truth was written upon us, as they say men’s sins are written on their bones so that when they die their wicked deeds can be read as if written upon parchment.”

— Alice Hoffman

235. “Crying wasn’t like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it’s done.”

— Alice Hoffman

236. “I didn’t understand that when I closed myself to her, I took a part of her bitterness inside me. It was green and unforgiving, and as it grew it made me more like her. It gave me my strength, but it gave me my weakness as well.”

— Alice Hoffman

237. “What is broken can also be mended.”

— Alice Hoffman

238. “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

239. “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

240. “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

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

— Alice Hoffman

242. “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

243. “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

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

— Alice Hoffman

245. “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

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

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Alice Hoffman

249. “He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.”

— Alice Hoffman

250. “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