Quotes from Alice Hoffman

He backed off, the way he always does, but it won't happen a second time. If he ever sees her again he's going to go right up to her and ask her to marry him, that's what he'll do. He's sick of letting fate roll right past him.

I'd been bitten by a lion, but you had to look inside me to see the scar.

There was a spark inside that holiest of holy places that made people want to possess it, and what men yearn for they often destroy.

He said God could distinguish a sinner from a sin.

The children knew that which you cannot see can be more dangerous than that which is before you.

Life is trouble, brother. You've got to fight for what you want.

There are those who say that heaven and hell are not so far apart. They are not at opposite ends of the world beyond ours, only a step away from one another.

We can offer women what they want most of all, cures for the most common ailments of this world... When children are ailing or babies refuse to be born, when men are unfaithful, when the sky is empty of rain, when the amulets buried beneath holy wall upon instructions of the minim offer not solace and all entreaties to the priests for guidance fail, when the rituals they offer bring no comfort and no consolation, they come to us.

In the human world you had to choose your loyalties carefully. You had to see through to someone's heart.

Desire had a way of making a person oddly courageous.

You're like the weird fucked-up sister of yourself, Shelby. Whereas I'm just an extension of my loser self that anyone could have foreseen. I have followed the path set out before me. You veered.

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.