Quotes of Alice Hoffman - somelinesforyou

“ Books may well be the only true magic. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you’re gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blueblack sky is for suckers or maniacs. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ My mother was teaching me that the inside of something was not necessarily its outside. Always look carefully, she told me. Look with more than your eyes. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blueblack sky is for suckers or maniacs. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ ...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ She knew it the way people say they know they are about to be hit by lightning, yet remain powerless to run, unable to avoid their fate. She panicked, as anyone might have when disparate parts of her life were about to crash into each other, certain to leave a path of anguish and debris. It was true that devotion could be lost as quickly as it was found, which was why some people insisted that love letters be written in ink. How easy it was for even the sweetest words to evaporate, only to be rewritten as impulse and infatuation might dictate. How unfortunate that love could not be taught or trained, like a seal or a dog. Instead it was a wolf on the prowl, with a mind of its own, and it made its own way, undeterred by the damage done. Love like this could turn honest people into liars and cheats, as it now did… ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the WorldtoCome, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ Love was never a mistake, even when it wasn't returned. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ To want someone so much could be a terrible thing, or it could be the best hope a man could have. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty and devotion, even though my eyes were closed, and all that surrounded me was a darkened room. I wrote because that was who I was at the core, and if I was too damaged to walk around the block, I was lucky all the same. Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ Books may well be the only true magic. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ Books may well be the only true magic. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ Shelby watched the books burn. She wonders if words are pouring down on other people's houses,sad words, like beast and mourn and sorrow and mother. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ It was said that boys should go on their first sea voyage at the age of ten, but surely this notion was never put forth by anyone's mother. If the bay were to be raised one degree in temperature for every woman who had lost the man or child she loved at sea, the water would have boiled, throwing off steam even in the dead of winter, poaching the bluefish and herings as they swam. ”

- Alice Hoffman
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