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You lose people sometimes, you know. You don't expect to, but then it happens and you can't get them back." We By Alice Hoffman

But try as you might to protect people from danger, you cannot keep them from their true nature. By Alice Hoffman

That was when I came to understand that freaks of nature and ordinary people had no business being together. By Alice Hoffman

You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies. By Alice Hoffman

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays. By Alice Hoffman

It had made her too helpless, because that's what love did. There was no way around it and no way to fight it. Now if she lost, she lost everything. By Alice Hoffman

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world. By Alice Hoffman

Love was never a mistake,even when it wasn't returned. By Alice Hoffman

Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost. By Alice Hoffman

Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words. By Alice Hoffman

He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate. Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent. By Alice Hoffman

And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal. By Alice Hoffman

I just stored up my hurts, as if they were a tower made of fallen stars, invisible to most people, but brightly burning inside of me. By Alice Hoffman

Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time! By Alice Hoffman

She kissed him first, and all the rest followed. By Alice Hoffman

Let my burden be your burden, and yours be mine. By Alice Hoffman

A woman who knows what she wants, Adelle always told me, is likely to receive it. By Alice Hoffman

I have wondered all my life what I am made of, if there is a straw inside of me, or a beating heart, or if I simply burned for all I did not have. By Alice Hoffman

I would not begin to understand until I was a very old woman, and even then they would still be a mystery. By Alice Hoffman

Sam said, Hey, you want to get high? Amy had taken his words to mean You are so beautiful I am undone by you. By Alice Hoffman

What you are able to dream you are able to grow, she says to me. If you don't believe in it, it can never happen. By Alice Hoffman

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything. By Alice Hoffman

love was never a regret. By Alice Hoffman

Feelings are best left concealed. They can bite you if you're not careful. They can eat you alive. By Alice Hoffman

I thought about how it was impossible to forget, no matter how hard anyone might try. By Alice Hoffman

I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming. By Alice Hoffman

Nowadays, she doesn't even look in a mirror. She's afraid no one will be staring back at her. By Alice Hoffman

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws? By Alice Hoffman

Do you ever get the feeling that your life isn't really your own, and you've just sort of let things happen to you? By Alice Hoffman

If she felt my gaze upon her, I assume she was accustomed to being stared at, just as I was used to wanting what I could not have. By Alice Hoffman

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction. By Alice Hoffman

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

Interesting, but she could see that the boy didn't have a single lie in him. A very rare condition, especially for the male of the species. By Alice Hoffman

He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find. By Alice Hoffman

(Love) walks up to you,and when it does, you need to recognize it for what it is and, perhaps more important, for what it might become. By Alice Hoffman

what does love matter in a world where it's so easy to hurt someone? By Alice Hoffman

Every woman is only one bad boyfriend or one bad choice away from the street. And she's only one good choice back to the path that will lead her home. By Alice Hoffman

I wrote Seventh Heaven for my mother who I miss every dayFrom Facebook post By Alice Hoffman

Everything seemed slow, molasses slow, lovesick slow. By Alice Hoffman

I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live. By Alice Hoffman

He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one. By Alice Hoffman

The river runs every shade of blue that has ever been known to humankind: ink and turquoise and lapis, indigo, teal, cerulean, and ultramarine. By Alice Hoffman

If anything, love was like light, illuminating what no one would have ever guessed was there in the darkness. By Alice Hoffman

She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless. By Alice Hoffman

Love is ancient and mysterious and you can't mess with it. If you do it just backfires and you meet with disaster. By Alice Hoffman

She wishes she had time to run around the block once or twice; maybe then she wouldn't feel as if she were about to burn up or shatter. By 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. By Alice Hoffman

If a ghost were to consider climbing in the window, or seeping through the plaster, he might think twice about facing Maria. By Alice Hoffman

He's so kindhearted no dog has ever barked at him. No child has ever cried in front of him. No bee has ever tried to sting him. By Alice Hoffman

Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think. By Alice Hoffman

I hope you're happy," she said to Mrs. James."Happiness is for fools." Helena James shrugged. "So I wish that for you. By Alice Hoffman

He had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go."From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102. By Alice Hoffman

Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft. By Alice Hoffman

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed. By Alice Hoffman

You couldn't see love, or touch it, or taste it, yet it could destroy you and leave you in the dark, chasing after your own destiny. By Alice Hoffman

Over the years I had grown attached to it, as men grow attached to their miseries and their burdens. By Alice Hoffman

Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else? By Alice Hoffman

Do you think your mother came back?" Shelby asks him."Definitely. She's a cardinal who lives in my backyard. By Alice Hoffman

That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife. By Alice Hoffman

My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel. By Alice Hoffman

Ghosts are said to move in the corners of human sight. By Alice Hoffman

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life. By Alice Hoffman

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it. By Alice Hoffman

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them. By Alice Hoffman

I only had access to him when we were together in the library, and I loved them both -the library and my father- equally and without question. By Alice Hoffman

They sealed this promise by hooking pinkies, the way they used to, long ago, when promises didn't hurt as much. By Alice Hoffman

If she wanted to enter an otherworld, all she had to do was open a novel. By Alice Hoffman

I was walking through a dream rather than living my life. I had become someone else, but who was that someone? By Alice Hoffman

When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always. By Alice Hoffman

Barzel, what some believe is a combination of letters taken from the names of the matriarchs of Jacob's family, Leah, Rachel, Bilhah, and Zilpah. By Alice Hoffman

They carried what was holy within them, for every man was a temple, and every prayer spoken could be heard by our Father above us. By Alice Hoffman

Here's the thing about luck ... you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective. By Alice Hoffman

The best way to die is when your living By Alice Hoffman

In my family, a book can be a life raft. By Alice Hoffman

You can only know a friend so well after all. When you come right down to it, even your best friend is a puzzle. By Alice Hoffman

********** IF THE WOLFMAN had not disappeared from my life I would have made certain to question him further about By Alice Hoffman

I head a bitterness that hadn't been there before. Something was changing inside him. He'd had enough of following the rules. By Alice Hoffman

I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real? By Alice Hoffman

All that will ever be has already been written long before it happens. There is nothing we can do to stop it. By 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. By Alice Hoffman

Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with. By Alice Hoffman

You are my armour and my sword, my faith and my treasure, everything I'm fighting for. By Alice Hoffman

In our world of shadows, there is no black and white but a thousand different strokes of light". By Alice Hoffman

Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I'd always felt safer with stories than with flesh and blood. By Alice Hoffman

How had love come to this? This twisted dark place. The phone calls, the fear, the look on his face when he drove by the house. By Alice Hoffman

Hard times make for simple minds, By Alice Hoffman

My father was both a scientist and a magician, but he declared that it was in literature wherein we discovered our truest natures. By Alice Hoffman

He spoke with a raven's voice, old and wise and far above the cruelty of the human race. By Alice Hoffman

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream. By Alice Hoffman

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. - Aunt Frances By Alice Hoffman

My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden. By Alice Hoffman

Women were hurt every day and kept the cause to themselves. By Alice Hoffman

Love wasn't rational; there was no proof that it even existed outside of people's imaginings. By Alice Hoffman

How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I'd had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms. By Alice Hoffman

The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world. By Alice Hoffman

The place where what someone needs and what she desires cross each other to become one. By Alice Hoffman

He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted. By Alice Hoffman

She judged people smartly and quickly, and often found herself in a huff. By Alice Hoffman

I'm glad it all happened," he says, "Even the bad parts. By Alice Hoffman

Who but a fool would stay in one place and butt her head against the same window time and again? By Alice Hoffman

Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace. By Alice Hoffman

My expectations of what I wanted in a man I learned from a dog: loyalty and kindness. By Alice Hoffman

It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now. By Alice Hoffman

I want the words you hold in your hand, lamplight in a jar. By Alice Hoffman

One morning when the air was misleading and mild with hope ... By Alice Hoffman

He carries books everywhere he goes so he won't have to be bored by people. By Alice Hoffman

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes. By Alice Hoffman

Lydia went over and handed him a paper napkin. Conner stared at the napkin as if it were something delivered directly from the moon. By Alice Hoffman

You were the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all that we needed. By Alice Hoffman

In the human world you had to choose your loyalties carefully. You had to see through to someone's heart. By Alice Hoffman

Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears. By Alice Hoffman

I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect. By Alice Hoffman

Every step I took hurt, I walked on daggers, on hot blue fire. Not holding him was like not breathing, not being quite alive. As By Alice Hoffman

I can't really work on more than one thing at a time. By Alice Hoffman

I understood that fate could not be eluded forever; it came on leathery wings, swooping through the darkness like the bats in the orchards. By Alice Hoffman

You are my armor and my sword, my faith and my tresure, everything I'm fighting for. By Alice Hoffman

Your grand daughter may not be looking for trouble, but trouble is looking for her. By Alice Hoffman

She had come to believe that if her father had wanted a docile daughter, he should never have allowed her access to the ocean. By Alice Hoffman

What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree. By Alice Hoffman

I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream. By Alice Hoffman

That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats. By Alice Hoffman

Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected. By Alice Hoffman

Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs. By Alice Hoffman

What people called the truth seemed worthless to her; what was it but a furtive, bruised story to convince yourself life was worth living. By Alice Hoffman

But maybe a broken heart seemed a simple price to pay, the way that all costs that must be settled in the future appear, until they suddenly come due. By Alice Hoffman

I can hurt myself more than anyone else can," she told her sister. "I can do it with my eyes closed. By Alice Hoffman

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal. By Alice Hoffman

My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father. By Alice Hoffman

Griffon vultures, the strong, fearless creatures we called nesher that By Alice Hoffman

I was not pleased to be sent from my mother, but I occupied myself, a skill learned by children who must sometimes act older than their age. By Alice Hoffman

He thought of Jesus as a great teacher, a rebel who refused to see the poor and disenfranchised mistreated. By Alice Hoffman

Someone killed himself because of me once, Meredith said.People kill themselves because of what's inside of them, not because of other people. By Alice Hoffman

I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled. By Alice Hoffman

Writers don't choose their craft; they need to write in order to face the world. By Alice Hoffman

Did you not think this was what the world was like? the Man from the Valley said to me. By Alice Hoffman

When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character. By Alice Hoffman

I think of life as a book of stories," he goes on. You move through the stories and the characters change. By Alice Hoffman

Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done. By Alice Hoffman

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination. By Alice Hoffman

I wondered if all creatures were drawn to what was dangerous or if we merely wanted light at any cost and were willing to burn for our desires. By Alice Hoffman

The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood. By Alice Hoffman

When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves. By Alice Hoffman

Then I understood that when someone begins to tell you her story, you are entwined together. Perhaps even more so if the ending hasn't been divulged. By Alice Hoffman

I'd been bitten by a lion, but you had to look inside me to see the scar. By Alice Hoffman

People will disappoint you with their cruelty every time By Alice Hoffman

Books may well be the only true magic. By Alice Hoffman

It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too. By Alice Hoffman

Although my father had never been there, I came to believe I would someday see that city for him. By Alice Hoffman

What was a demon but a lost soul, one that had been forced to use his skills to survive. By Alice Hoffman

A pretty little minnow ... cool as rain, blue as heaven ... By Alice Hoffman

I should have begun to worry then, for as fortune comes to you, so does it slip away. By Alice Hoffman

You will be amazed to find how easy it is to lie, even to those you love best. By Alice Hoffman

Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner. By Alice Hoffman

Whoever gives his true self away does do with words By Alice Hoffman

We all burn for what is bad for us ... burn him in return. Maybe then the bastard won't have such a hold over you. By 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. By Alice Hoffman

I understood wanting to forget. Things that made you remember cut like pieces of glass. By Alice Hoffman

A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man. By Alice Hoffman

Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree. By Alice Hoffman

This was what it was. The ruin of it. The depth of it. Have it once and you can have it again. That's the riddle. That's the truth. By Alice Hoffman

Everyone should know exactly what everyone else is thinking and then people wouldn't hurt each other so much. By Alice Hoffman

What is behind you is gone, what is in front of you awaits. By Alice Hoffman

See a charmer and you're bound to see a snake nearby, By Alice Hoffman

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself. By Alice Hoffman

Such things as smiles can be weapons as well. By Alice Hoffman

In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients. By Alice Hoffman

At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea. By Alice Hoffman

You should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind. By Alice Hoffman

(roses) each one shivering with cool silver light. By Alice Hoffman

He could burn her up alive; he could do it in a minute flat, and that's not easy to forget. By Alice Hoffman

You know what love is? ... It's what you least expect. By Alice Hoffman

He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking. By Alice Hoffman

You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be. By Alice Hoffman

Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot. By Alice Hoffman

You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone. By Alice Hoffman

All things change, for that is the way of the world we walk through. By Alice Hoffman

I wished to be forgiven. 'It was always so in the eyes of God,' Shirah told me. By Alice Hoffman

If we had no hurt and no sin to speak of, we'd be angels, and amgels can't love the way men and women do. By Alice Hoffman

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. By Alice Hoffman

She said she wanted a man like that, someone who understood sorrow, not someone who caused it. By Alice Hoffman

Is it not beautiful?" I said of the world around us."Is it not terrible? By Alice Hoffman

That's still the best reading experience: falling in love with a book I meet by accident. By Alice Hoffman

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure. By Alice Hoffman

Lately, she's been wondering if perhaps when the living become the dead they leave an empty space behind, a hollow no one else can fill. By Alice Hoffman

I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back. By Alice Hoffman

Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones. By Alice Hoffman

Men and women rarely speak to each other, though they often talk. By Alice Hoffman

Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight. By Alice Hoffman

The day had begun, cool and clear and absolutely impossible to avoid By Alice Hoffman

She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future. By Alice Hoffman

Well, maybe that's what love is, as state of mind ready to grace anyone willing to accept it. Anyone who cares. By Alice Hoffman

And so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie. By Alice Hoffman

I started to feel as though I were disappearing. Perhaps I myself was figment of my own imagination, a storm cloud, a wisp of smoke, a burning ember. By Alice Hoffman

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws. By Alice Hoffman

Pete wondered if the endings of things gathered in the corners of a room, hanging down like a spider's web, waiting. By Alice Hoffman

Remember what I've told you. Remember me. By Alice Hoffman

The story became a cloud, and the cloud a sheet of rain, and rain fell throughout the empire. By Alice Hoffman

I would watch his footprints when he went and mourn him before he was gone. By Alice Hoffman

When a star reaches for you, it is difficult to look away. By Alice Hoffman

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward. By Alice Hoffman

He studied me, searching my expression, not quite seeing what had happened but aware that something had changed. By Alice Hoffman

Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own. By Alice Hoffman

I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing. By Alice Hoffman

No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time. By Alice Hoffman

The only way to understand a river is to jump into it. By Alice Hoffman

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help. By Alice Hoffman

She's beginning to wonder if perhaps she's haunting herself. By Alice Hoffman

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen. By Alice Hoffman

She has an eye for tragedy and sorrow. By Alice Hoffman

I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks. By Alice Hoffman

I'm trying to find someone who doesn't want to be found.""That can be as hard as looking for a shadow. By Alice Hoffman

The evening had turned sweet and blue. By Alice Hoffman

He is gone and all we have is this world, here and now. By Alice Hoffman

She begged for time to stop, for clocks to break, for every star to remain fixed. But none of that happened. By Alice Hoffman

There was a spark inside that holiest of holy places that made people want to possess it, and what men yearn for they often destroy. By Alice Hoffman

No one called out my name. Finally, I went to open the door. I could smell burning metal. By Alice Hoffman

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist. By Alice Hoffman

Life is beautiful, just very unfair. By Alice Hoffman

People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost. By Alice Hoffman

Everyone knows a white blackbird is nothing more than a ghost, a shadow of what it ought to be. By Alice Hoffman

You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil. By Alice Hoffman

You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil. By Alice Hoffman

He couldn't remember how it felt to live his life without his dog. By Alice Hoffman

But now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not. By Alice Hoffman

Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms. By Alice Hoffman

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told. By Alice Hoffman

You want to know what love is? Its the thing that ruins you. By Alice Hoffman

Heart, soul, treasure, rain, sister, memory, knowledge, hope, will. By Alice Hoffman

He must be an idiot to feel this way, but there's nothing he can do. He doesn't even know if he can manage to speak. By Alice Hoffman

He dusted the dough with cumin and coriander and salt before he slid the loaves into the oven on flat wooden boards. Perhaps most important, By Alice Hoffman

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. By Alice Hoffman

Dreams came to men for many reasons, both as oracles and as warnings. By Alice Hoffman

Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene. By Alice Hoffman

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be. By Alice Hoffman

I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren't easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most of all. By Alice Hoffman

Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul. By Alice Hoffman

Early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills. By Alice Hoffman

A lifetime is a lifetime whether it lasts one night or a hundred years. By 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. By Alice Hoffman

A breeze had come up and there was the scent of loam in the air. Hay and fertilizer. Sweet grass and wild ginger. April. By Alice Hoffman

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head. By Alice Hoffman

There was so much light in the world we knew we would never be able to count it all. By Alice Hoffman

Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them. By Alice Hoffman

Perhaps I was drawn to stories in which people found their true desires because I was a stranger to myself. By Alice Hoffman

Don't worry, I'm not afraid of words. By Alice Hoffman

Believers with nothing to believe in. By Alice Hoffman

... we saw the edges of one another's souls. By Alice Hoffman

The children knew that which you cannot see can be more dangerous than that which is before you. By Alice Hoffman

hand, I felt empty. They By Alice Hoffman

She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all. By Alice Hoffman

Whoever knows you when you are young can look inside you and see the person you once were, and maybe still are at certain times. By Alice Hoffman

I knew what happened in fairy tales. The strong survived while the weak were eaten alive. By Alice Hoffman

Don't make me sit through reality. By Alice Hoffman

Lucy Green couldn't stop reading. She was a secret reader ... By Alice Hoffman

Men are men, with all their flaws, as we have ours, that's true, but the best among them manage to discover who we really are. By Alice Hoffman

Child of a watcher, an angel who had been called to earth by my mother's beauty By Alice Hoffman

Sometimes movies really are the best medicine. By Alice Hoffman

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way. By Alice Hoffman

What did we know about those closest to us, really? No one ever dared to speak plainly about desire; no one said the word out loud. By Alice Hoffman

People all over town had listened for my grandfather's cries, but there were none. Only silence. By Alice Hoffman

People can surprise you in so many ways, both with cruelty and with kindness. By Alice Hoffman

Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them. By Alice Hoffman

Once you possess something others do not, you are a target for the wicked. By Alice Hoffman

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows. By Alice Hoffman

Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? By Alice Hoffman

For love changes everything and forces us into lives we never imagined we might lead By Alice Hoffman

Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement. By Alice Hoffman

Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more. By Alice Hoffman

We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could. By Alice Hoffman

And what of monsters? Can they love too? We know quite well they can. For we know that they do. By Alice Hoffman

I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for. By Alice Hoffman

Love is complicated, love can be hidden, love, above all else, is loyalty. By Alice Hoffman

This was the virtue of the dark: you were who you had always been, only no one could see you. By Alice Hoffman

I fear myself more than I fear any bear,' Emily blurted. It was the way she'd felt in her aloneness, the comfort she took in being on the mountain. By Alice Hoffman

They say the truest beauty is in the harshest land and that God can be found there by those with open eyes. By Alice Hoffman

Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being. By Alice Hoffman

Love has nothing to do with time or space. By Alice Hoffman

That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it. By Alice Hoffman

In good time every secret must be shared and every miracle called into question. By Alice Hoffman

Lion had to kiss her then and there, even though when he kissed her he felt as though he were swallowing her sadness. By Alice Hoffman

Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote. By Alice Hoffman

If you do not face something, it will follow you anyway. By Alice Hoffman

Honesty was like a stone, dropped and irretrievable once it was spoken aloud By Alice Hoffman

Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow. By Alice Hoffman

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun. By Alice Hoffman

Time was like a river, and I was a fish in that river, moving so quickly that the world outside my household was blur. By Alice Hoffman

Well, maybe that was fate. Maybe she was meant to be alone. She was a runner, and wasn't that the habit of a person who preferred to be on her own? By Alice Hoffman

Listen, and you'll hear a story being told, one you may need to know. By Alice Hoffman

I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death. By Alice Hoffman

When you change your name you change your fate as well. By Alice Hoffman

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found. By Alice Hoffman

She's not a demon, she's a woman. In this case, that's worse. By Alice Hoffman

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written. By Alice Hoffman

I had been blind to the pain of others until I had my own burden to carry. By Alice Hoffman

But I was not a mouse. In the fields where I walked, I was much more interested in the actions of the hawks. By Alice Hoffman

I would have drowned without you to watch over me ... I now understand there are a thousand ways to drown, and a thousand ways to rescue someone. By Alice Hoffman

We had been together as animals were, desperate and driven by a fierce need By Alice Hoffman

Unleavened Bread, all By Alice Hoffman

That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness. By Alice Hoffman

It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you. By Alice Hoffman

She wishes nightmares were all that kept her awake. She cannot tell which disturbs here more, the future or the past. By Alice Hoffman

There seemed to be handfuls of stars tossed right above the rooftops in Haddan, keeping the town still alight at midnight. By Alice Hoffman

Perhaps in the cold my heart would freeze and I would care nothing for those I was forced to abandon. By Alice Hoffman

The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep. By Alice Hoffman

She wonders if she has something other people don't. Intuition or hope she wouldn't know what to call it. By Alice Hoffman

With every step I wished myself away to another life, one lived far from here. By Alice Hoffman

Mrs. Jones leaned in close. She smelled of wool and peppermint. There's a man somewhere who wanted you to believe in something ... By Alice Hoffman

only white, his hair braided. He eschewed By Alice Hoffman

Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by. By Alice Hoffman

In a novel, you'll find yourself in a world of possibilities. You'll find shelter there. By Alice Hoffman

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away. By Alice Hoffman

Each morning when I arrive, the doves know me; their song rises and falls with pleasure and acceptance. It is always there, a river of sound. By Alice Hoffman

It's no good to need someone more than you want them. By Alice Hoffman

I had always done as he asked, not because I was bound to do so by duty but because I saw the depth of who he was and how he himself suffered. By Alice Hoffman

You want me to lie to you? said McKay. I shrugged. Why not? I didn't mind lies. By Alice Hoffman

I am not an idiot. It's just that sometimes there are things that I don't want to know. By Alice Hoffman

The priests were deferential, siding with Rome, and those who opposed them were said to be robbers and thugs, my father and his friends among By Alice Hoffman

He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had. By Alice Hoffman

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown. By Alice Hoffman

The only way to fight evil is with joy, By Alice Hoffman

Make you want things you hadn't even known existed. By Alice Hoffman

a woman who could rescue herself was a woman who would never be in need. By Alice Hoffman

What looked empty was full, much like water in a cup. What was most important was invisible to the eye. THE By Alice Hoffman

As I turned the pages, I felt as if there were bees on my fingertips, for I had never felt so alive as when reading. By Alice Hoffman

They weren't true stories; they were better than that. By Alice Hoffman

Just know that what's done can be undone, but what's undone can never again be. By Alice Hoffman

It had been better to have viewed him from a distance, so that his flaws were left unseen. By Alice Hoffman

If you tried to right all the wrongs in the world you'd exhaust yourself in under an hour. By Alice Hoffman

I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived. By Alice Hoffman

Mean people are meaningless. By Alice Hoffman

108I was a rat perhaps, but never a mouse. By Alice Hoffman

She's not a demon, she's a woman," my mother said sadly. "In this case, that's worse. By Alice Hoffman

You can get addicted to trouble if you're not careful. By Alice Hoffman

The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe. By Alice Hoffman

She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me. By Alice Hoffman

Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away. By Alice Hoffman

Then let us be among those who hope that the future will be less cruel than the past. By Alice Hoffman

But as God created life, so did He create destruction. By Alice Hoffman

...who I am to talk? I dream of rain. By Alice Hoffman

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories. By Alice Hoffman

Don't cry while you are reading the book wait until you are done reading it. By Alice Hoffman

The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day. By Alice Hoffman

Sometimes words spoken are the ones you've been afraid to think,but once they're said aloud there's no way to make themdisappear By Alice Hoffman

You don't need wealth to appreciate something beautiful. By Alice Hoffman

You know what love is? Maureen said to me that day...it's what you least expect. By Alice Hoffman

I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either. By Alice Hoffman

What makes a dangerous woman, however, was not always so apparent, for what is unnoticeable to the human eye is often the most deadly attribute. By Alice Hoffman

The more you feel, the stronger you are. By Alice Hoffman

We grew careless, as people who are lost often do. By Alice Hoffman

The future was spun from moments like this. If she backed away, it might all unravel. By Alice Hoffman

He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her. By Alice Hoffman

Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot. By Alice Hoffman

He said God could distinguish a sinner from a sin. By Alice Hoffman

I never once stopped to consider that what you are given can also be taken away. By Alice Hoffman

History is personal, Gwen understands that now. All you are seeing is what's before you, the rest is guesswork. By Alice Hoffman

I believe in tragedy," Shelby responds coldly. "Not miracles. By Alice Hoffman

Sally ... can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote. By Alice Hoffman

He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky. By Alice Hoffman

She feels her love inside her as if it were as tangible as blood and bones. They'll By Alice Hoffman

Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last. By Alice Hoffman

My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible. By Alice Hoffman

She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse. By Alice Hoffman

Salvation was mysterious, wasn't that always true? By Alice Hoffman