Quotes from Alice Hoffman

It is foolish to cry over things you cannot change

A woman alone who could read and write was suspect. Words were magic. Books were not to be trusted. What men could not understand, they wished to burn.

If you are loved, you never lose the person who loved you. You carry them with you all your

I know we lived among extraordinary things but, perhaps more importantly, in extraordinary times. People may or may not remember the heroes and the villains of our day, but all that the brave among us did, and all that they were, remains with us still.

Read as many books as you can. Choose courage over caution. Take time to visit libraries. Look for light in the darkness.

In his opinion, a woman who loved books was the best sort.

Some people grow weak when they are victimized, others grow stronger, and still others combine those two attributes to become dangerous, even if the person in question is a girl who has recently turned twelve.

Standing at her window, Anne was enchanted to see the buds that would soon be opening into white stars. Perhaps the magnolia spoke to her, and if it did, it told her that no man with ill intentions would travel with a large, flowering tree.

He awoke before dawn to find the tree in full bloom, a bower of cream-colored stars on dark, leathery leaves. He heard it speak to him when he leaned his head against the gray trunk.

Never be without thread," she told the girl. "What is broken can also be mended. Remember that in your dark days, as I have.

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.