Quotes from Alice Hoffman
Where there were lilacs there would be luck.
- Alice Hoffman
Sometimes the right thing felt all wrong until it was over and done with.
- Alice Hoffman
Do you think your mother came back? Shelby asks him. Definitely. She's a cardinal who lives in my backyard.
- Alice Hoffman
A glass breaking on its own portended death.
- Alice Hoffman
Who would have guessed you'd be crying over that old hay bag." But that wasn't it at all, Elinor saw that from the look on his face when he turned to her. That was the attachment, that was the way he held on to her.
- Alice Hoffman
Let love be one, let it heal what had been broken, let it open the door to hope for the future.
- Alice Hoffman
but promise can disappear if you leave it to flounder
- Alice Hoffman
They sealed this promise by hooking pinkies, the way they used to, long ago, when promises didn't hurt as much.
- Alice Hoffman
and want can be a hundred times stronger than need, and a thousand times stronger than common sense. She
- Alice Hoffman
You think terrible things can't happen because they've never happened to you, but they're out there, all the time, every day. They happen to someone.
- Alice Hoffman
There are sick people everywhere, in wheelchairs and on benches. Shelby is embarrassed to be so healthy.
- Alice Hoffman
Franny was always going to be the one to break the curse. Here was her secret: she loved so deeply the depth could never be charted.
- Alice Hoffman