Quotes from Alice Hoffman

To find someone, it was necessary to follow in the way that the angels who follow men's lives on earth are said to do, charting each trespass without judgment, for judgment is never ours to give.

Maria had been expecting a visitor, for the broom had fallen only an hour earlier, which always meant company was coming.

Love someone and they're yours forever.

We will have to pay a price for being happy?""Everyone does. That's what it means to be alive.

That was why the Almighty had given us prayer, to distinguish man from animals, to leave the beasts inside of us locked away.

I don't think I'm the smart sister, Isabel said. You are, Sophie told her. You just have a lot to learn.

Those women who could read were revered and feared, for they were the most skilled in love magic.

Ben would have done anything for you." "I thought that meant he was an idiot." "No," Maravelle says. "It means you're an idiot.

Shelby has absolutely nothing inside of her. She's a black hole. A sinkhole. A whole lot of nothing. She's told Ben that, but he doesn't want to believe her. Who would have imagined he'd turn out to be such an optimist?

She had the ability to spot a liar, except for the lies spoken by someone she loved. That's what had caught her up; she'd been distracted by love, which seemed, at least at the time, to be the truest thing in the world.

Keep the light out, have faith, trust in what you feel, not in what you see. Leave the matches at home. Leave it be.

I no longer cared if my mother disliked me. I didn't understand that when I closed myself to her, I took a part of her bitterness inside me. It was green and unforgiving, and as it grew it made me more like her. It gave me my strength, but it gave me my weakness as well.