Alice Hoffman Quotes

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It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone — maybe even more alone — than I was…

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.

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

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

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

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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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