Quotes from Alice Hoffman

There are none who can fight as fiercely as a mother and a daughter, and none who can forgive more completely.

What is meant to be is bound to happen, whether or not you approve.

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

Night and Day, they called them, and although neither girl laughed at this little joke or found it amusing in the least, they recognized the truth in it, and were able to understand, earlier than most sisters, that the moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.

I knew I must do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a long-ago ancestor. Perhaps my mind was inflamed from the books I had read and the worlds I had imagined.

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

It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to be flipped and flopped, sunny-side up or scrambled, depending on the whims on whoever ran your life..._

He's nothing fierce or terrible or filled with light. He's like us, sometimes we can't even tell him apart. Sometimes we're the ones who try to save him. He's there to show us who we are. Human beings aren't gods. We makes mistakes.

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

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

Such things as smiles can be weapons as well.

What you send out comes back to you threefold. What you give to the world returns in kind. Blood begets blood.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

Your grief won't go away; it's not a door you can close,or a book you can put back on the shelf,or a kiss you can give back once it's given. This is the way the world is now. Keep the worst things to yourself, like a bone in your throat.

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

I'm glad it all happened, he says. Even the bad parts.

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.

Words were everything, stories were more powerful than any weapon, books changed lives.

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.

This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell

That was how evil spoke. It made its own corrupt sense; it swore that the good were evil, and that evil had come to save mankind

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

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

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.