Quotes from Alice Hoffman

we have to fight them. The best way to do this is to be who you are, every part of you, the good and the bad, the sorrowful and the joyous. You can never run away. There is nowhere to run to. I think your mother knew that in the end, and that is why she came back here to be buried. We are who we are from the start.

Within such places, some of those on sale were considered more desirable if they possessed abnormalities, exactly what the Professor wished to find.

Snow in April means a hot summer to come.

She once told me that anyone who gets married had better like herself, because there's nobody else in this world that she'll ever really know, not truly.

Whatever belonged to you once, will always belong to you.

She had even considered that poetry might be her calling. She had something inside her no one understood, that much was certain, and that sort of isolation often led to a poet's life.

You make love what you want it to be, Hannah had told her. You decide. You walk toward it, or you walk away.

Well, everyone made assumptions, didn't they? Everyone thought they knew her when they knew nothing at all. She had wanted a bigger life, something spectacular, and now here she was in London, much to her parents' dismay up in Reading. She was a small-town girl who desperately wanted a big-city life. That's the story of a mouse, her father had told her. Not of a bright, talented woman who should be in university.

the sky outside was so gloomy it pushed down on anyone who dared to walk beneath it.

Who can you trust if not your sister? Who knows your story better than she?

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

Although she'd never believe it, those lines in Gillian's face are the most beautiful part about her. They reveal what she's gone through and what she's survived and who exactly she is, deep inside.

When he took her home he ran the bath, which he had scrubbed clean---not an easy task---and they got into the tub together and drank strawberry milkshakes.

Close your eyes and listen, such people advised, then walk twenty paces farther than you thought necessary. Just when you're certain you've lost your way completely, you'll be there. Open your eyes.

for a man's fate changed every day, depending upon his actions.

You didn't want to know, so it was easy for her to fool you. She works left-handed.

People in town said that if you stood beneath the magnolia, your beloved would come to you, no matter the season or the time, and when its flowers bloomed those who passed by became confused, imagining there had been snow in May, or that stars had fallen from the sky.

I believe in tragedy," Shelby responds coldly. "Not miracles." "Yeah, right. Faith is for idiots." Ben seems relieved. "Statistics speak the truth." "You have to stop thinking. It's going to drive us

If the Wolfman had not disappeared from my life I would have made certain to question him further about

They were such solitary creatures that when they met their mates they would begin to scream, for they were drawn to each other, yet were enemies still.

She realized it had never been love between them, for you cannot love someone you can never know.

Maybe if she watches him closely enough she'll understand what makes one person kind and another, herself for instance, mistrustful and hopeless.

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

but when there was nothing left to try it could not hurt to believe in something, however preposterous it might seem.