Quotes from Alice Hoffman

She had a solemn expression as she asked if, in his opinion as a doctor, he had come to the conclusion that all living things had souls. ...... If a soul was formed by meaning and purpose, did not every blade of grass have a soul, for each had a purpose.

I used to think there was a plan, a rough plan, but a plan all the same," the doctor admitted. "Now, I believe there are a thousand plans. Every breath, every decision, influences the plan, expands it, shortens it, twists it all around. It's always changing. Those of us lucky enough to make it through the multitude of possible diseases and accidents get old. We get tired. We close our eyes.

There are secrets that must be held close, and most of these have to do with the wounding of the human heart, for sorrow spoken aloud is sorrow lived through twice.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

When your father doesn't love you, a stone forms inside of you, hard and sharp enough to pierce through bone.

crows were more intelligent than most men, and more loyal, and that you could not choose them, they must choose you, they must come to you and once they did they would never leave you, at least not of their own accord.

In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; and in all things love.

She once told me that anyone who gets married had better like herself, because there's nobody else in this world that she'll ever really know, not truly.

Whatever belonged to you once, will always belong to you.

The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day.

Close your eyes and listen, such people advised, then walk twenty paces farther than you thought necessary. Just when you're certain you've lost your way completely, you'll be there. Open your eyes.

She had fallen under water, under a spell, in love with love.