Alice Hoffman Quotes, Thoughts and images
You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone.
My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances
You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.
Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.
Books may well be the only true magic.
Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
Here's the thing about luck you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.
Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.
This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.
No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.
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.
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.
I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either.
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.
Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.
It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.
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
Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever.
Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.
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.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.
When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.
When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head
...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.