Quotes from Alice Hoffman

They had likely been together twenty times, an entire world created in just days.

She was beautiful. That's why her name was April.

Now Franny understood that you must be yourself no matter what; anything else was a lie, and a denial of who you were would always cause grief. What you put out into the world came back to you threefold. If you could not accept yourself, you would be reviled and cast out, adrift in the world.

She was good at forgetting; she had practiced for years, and it was now a skill at which she excelled.

When you are a wolf, no place is safe, no one can be trusted. Unless they are what you are. Hunted.

Uncross your knives

Here lies the life I might have had once upon a time, the man I might have loved for all my life, the days we might have had.

She thinks of the way angels arrive, when you lease expect them, when the road is dark, when you're bleeding and alone and hopeless, when you're sleeping in a basement, convinced that no one knows you're there.

Midsummer's Eve, the summer solstice, when the day is so long it seems for once there is all the time in the world.

Nathaniel Hawthorne had placed the w in his name to distance himself from his cruel ancestor, his writing driven by his desire to make amends for all the evil his great-great-grandfather had done in the world.

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.

I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.

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

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

You wanted a blue rose, Brock said. Didn't you? Wasn't that the whole point? Doesn't everyone want what they cannot have?(Elinor) Here's what I think: it's the quest that matters.(Brock)

But children can tell when love has been lost, they know when silence means peace and when it's a sign of despair.

Anything whole can be broken, and anything broken can be put back together again. That is the meaning of Abracadabra. I create what I speak.

He opened his eyes for an instant. Other people were writing and melting, but my brother stopped his flight long enough to look at me. An instant that would have to last forever. And then the flames rose higher and my brother was gone.

It's for your own good," she said tenderly. "All I want for you is a normal life." "Mother," Franny sighed. "What makes you think that's what I want?

Let her wake as when she close her eyes. That was all Jenny asked for. That was all she begged for on this March night that was perfectly equal to the day, unique in all the season. Let her be the same sweet girl, unburdened by gifts or sorrow.

Hochman had been right, the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep it close or let it go. Fate was both what we were given and what we made for ourselves.

Vincent gave him the twenty. "You don't think you might be looking for trouble?" Levi thanked Vincent for the loan, but laughed at the question. "Life is trouble, brother. You've got to fight for what you want.

When she reached 44 Greenwich Avenue she went inside alone, and only the crow knew that it was possible for a woman to claim to have no heart at all and still cry as though her heart would break

When you truly love someone and they love you in return, you ruin your lives together