Quotes from Alice Hoffman

People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.

I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.

Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.

You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.

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

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

I just do the best I can to face what life brings. That's the secret, you know. That's the way you change your fate.

Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.

The best way to die is when you're living.

It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.

If you are loved, you never lose the person who loved you. You carry them with you all your life.

Anything whole can be broken," Isabelle told her. "And anything broken can be put back together again. That is the meaning of Abracadabra. I create what I speak.

But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' That was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.

Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.

Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.

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

I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.

We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as if they'd never walked and talked and burned, forgetting them was the real evil. That was the hole of darkness.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

It had made her too helpless, because that's what love did. There was no way around it and no way to fight it. Now if she lost, she lost everything.

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.

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

He knew exactly how to hit a woman, so that the marks hardly showed. He knew how to kiss her, too, so that her heart began to race and she'd start to think forgiveness with every breath. It's amazing the places that love will carry you. It's astounding to discover just how far you're willing to go.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.