Quotes from Alice Hoffman

My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was.

I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.

We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.

Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

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

Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.

There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.

People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?