Alice Hoffman Quotes

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Being human means losing everything we love best in the world. But would you ask to be anything else?

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

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He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.

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

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

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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.

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When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our friendship. Now I was the girl who'd stolen Andres; the girl who'd lied to her about who I was. Therefore, she owned me nothing.

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

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

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

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The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.

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

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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.

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The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild irises... that the color of the sky was a shade that could never be replicated in any photograph, just as Heaven could never be seen from the confines of Earth.

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You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.

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Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you.

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

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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.

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Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it like a flash of lightning? Like an angel tapping you on the shoulder? Or is it similar to choosing a puppy? You think you're picking the cutest one, but really you wind up going home with the one who keeps insisting on climbing into your lap.

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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.

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Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

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She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.

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It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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