Quotes from Alice Hoffman
I had lost my mother and my father and my sister, and sometimes when I caught a glimpse of myself in a shop window, I wondered if perhaps I hadn't lost myself as well
- Alice Hoffman
he thought of Jesus as a great teacher, a rebel who refused to see the poor and disenfranchised mistreated.
- Alice Hoffman
You're so rebellious as it is." "I am not!" Franny said with her customary defiance
- Alice Hoffman
You rescue something and you're responsible for it. But maybe that's what love is.
- Alice Hoffman
Our mother had taught us that when the moon was white, reappearing after its absence, it was showing us that what had been hidden could easily become whole again.
- Alice Hoffman
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
He was so pale the freckles stood out on his face the way they did when he was upset or hadn't slept. She thought they might be telling her something if she could only understand the language of freckles.
- Alice Hoffman
People really could be one way outside, when inside they were torn to shreds, a fine white powder of grief and regret replacing blood and bones, and no one even noticed.
- Alice Hoffman
Unable are the Loved to die, for Love is Immortality," the boy said. When he saw the way Jet was looking at him he laughed. "I didn't come up with that, Emily Dickinson
- Alice Hoffman
Many of them began to wonder why they themselves often feigned opinions rather than speak their minds, no matter how clever they were, for fear they'd be thought of as difficult.
- Alice Hoffman
Tell me you won't walk away again and I'll call the whole thing off.
- Alice Hoffman
What she feels for him is so deep, she aches. She supposes this is what people refer to when they say the pangs of love, as if your innermost joy cannot help but cause you anguish as well.
- Alice Hoffman