Quotes from Alice Hoffman
As the summer passed, I began to feel free. I had time to myself, and I enjoyed watching over the children. I felt a sort of joy I'd never felt before. I was so unaccustomed to such emotions it took some time before I realized I was happy.
- 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.
- Alice Hoffman
He told me he wanted the chance to be in love again. He has no idea that being in love is bullshit. It's knowing someone down to their soul that matters. That's what love is. It's difficult and it's real and it doesn't change.
- Alice Hoffman
How wonderful to say whatever you wanted without having to go over it in your mind, again and again, to make certain it wouldn't set him off.
- Alice Hoffman
Swedenborg, the Christian mystic, and the sentiment of charity as divine spoke deeply to him. He felt swept up in something far bigger than himself.
- Alice Hoffman
Without courage, you will never find the answer
- Alice Hoffman
The future was spun from moments like this. If she backed away, it might all unravel.
- Alice Hoffman
If a woman doesn't write her own history, there are very few who will.
- Alice Hoffman
What belonged to you once, will always belong to you.
- Alice Hoffman
I'll pretend to be who they want me to be.' He grinned then, and she saw his youth. 'But it won't work. In the end I'll have to disappoint someone. Either them, or myself.
- Alice Hoffman
What belonged to you once, will always belong to you. Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another's heart in your hand.
- Alice Hoffman
Matt and Will got out and hoisted the wolfhound inside. The faithful deserve something, on this everyone agreed: kindness, at least, consideration, naturally; most of all, the right to their grief.
- Alice Hoffman