Quotes from Alice Hoffman
There are those who insist that mothers are born with love for their children and place them before all other things, including their own needs and desires. This was not the case with us.
- Alice Hoffman
Would you like to know your fatal flaw?' Eddie flushed with annoyance. He could have easily made a list of Hochman's flaws, enough to fill several pages. Still, he was curious. 'Please do tell.' 'You judge what you don't understand.
- Alice Hoffman
She wore a wide-brimmed black hat and men's trousers, and she carried a satchel of books to ensure that if she should finish one volume she would be handily prepared with the next.
- Alice Hoffman
Do as you will, but harm no one. What you give will be returned to you threefold.
- Alice Hoffman
She was inexperienced enough to assume what they had was love because she wanted him, and want can be a hundred times stronger than need, and a thousand times stronger than common sense.
- Alice Hoffman
that you must be yourself no matter what; anything else was a lie, and a denial of who you were would always cause grief. What you put out into the world came back to you threefold.
- Alice Hoffman
Pain was something to get used to, to inure yourself against. I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of purpose and without remorse.
- Alice Hoffman
And yet, how much damage could one small book do? How powerful could it be? That was when Sally began to run, because she knew the answer. Words were everything, stories were more powerful than any weapon, books changed lives.
- Alice Hoffman
That's all someone in the grip of obsession needs: the single possibility that desire might be real, a tiny shred of evidence to show you're not all alone in the dark.
- Alice Hoffman
Writing itself was a magical act in which imagination altered reality and gave form to power. To this end, the book was the most powerful element of all.
- Alice Hoffman
Just like you still think you'll be happier if you run away.
- Alice Hoffman
That was history, in his opinion: that sorrow was unalterable and ever present. That tears could be preserved in the hardest granite.
- Alice Hoffman