Quotes from Alice Hoffman

we saw the edges of one another's souls.

Books] 'they will divide us. They'll make us think the world outside can teach you ore than you can learn right here

What belonged to you once, will always belong to you. Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another's heart in your hand.

Reading is never wasted time

What if I don't wish to be what I am?" "Then you will face a life of unhappiness

You could live a little or you could live a lot.

Neki ljudi znaju to?an trenutak kad su sve izgubili. Mogu se vratiti u prošlost i vidjeti to jasno kao na dlanu, ali ni za živu glavu ne mogu shvatiti zašto to nisu primijetili dok se doga?alo.

had felt a chill, as if she brought the future with her, clinging to her clothes.

hot drinks in hot weather allow the skin and soul to breathe.

This made sense when I began to draw, creating the elements one image at a time until the world appeared on the paper.

Matt and Will got out and hoisted the wolfhound inside. The faithful deserve something, on this everyone agreed: kindness, at least, consideration, naturally; most of all, the right to their grief.

The strangest thing about her was the way she gazed out the window, as if there was someplace she wanted to be, some other life that was more worth living.

But why would a man in his right mind memorize another man's words instead of speaking his own? That's what a player does. Maria shrugged. He pretends to be someone he's not.

A woman who acts as if she knows what she's doing gets what she wants.

It is foolish to cry over things you cannot change

How Much Do I Love You? I love you more than pancakes, more than ice cream, more than pickles, more than my life. I love you more than dogs or cats or diamonds or gold, more than anyone else in the world. I loved brushing your hair every night and walking you to school. I told you every story you knew.

There was the doctor, looking through one of the windows beside the front door. He could see into the garden, but it was a vision that was cloudy and green. What was he seeing? Elinor's last breath, broken into a thousand molecules? Was that what he was breathing? Her essence, her self, the person he would miss every day, his worst patient, his nastiest neighbor, his most treasured friend.

Ivy had begun to think that life was made up of a series of accidents and drastic errors. The unexpected became the expected, you made the right turn or the wrong turn, and all it added up to the path you were on. Happiness was there and then gone, impossible to hold on to.

Should is what you don't want to do, but do anyway. That isn't me.

For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in town.

If love could tie you to a place from which you never wished to roam then wouldn't it be sensible to suppose that after death it might also tie the atoms that made you to that very same place?

A woman alone who could read and write was suspect. Words were magic. Books were not to be trusted. What men could not understand, they wished to burn.

Then I understood that when someone begins to tell you her story, you are entwined together.

You could grow to love something so strong and elemental, but you'd have to value the beauty of it more than you did your own life.