Alice Hoffman Quotes

32 quotes

American novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer (b. 1952)

“She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me.”

"Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows."

on Life

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

on Love

"... the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep it close or let it go."

on Life

"There is the outside of a story, and the inside of a story... One is the fruit and may be delicious, but the other is the seed."

on Writing

"Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws."

on Truth

"I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren’t easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most of all."

on Writing

"We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal."

on Philosophy

"Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective."

on Philosophy

"Pride is a funny thing it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure."

on Wisdom

"Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be."

on Wisdom

"Love was never a mistake,even when it wasn't returned."

on Love

"Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms."

on Relationships

"...never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."

on Art

"That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness."

on Philosophy

"Feelings are best left concealed. They can bite you if you're not careful. They can eat you alive."

on Fear

"When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure."

on Love

"Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen."

on Philosophy

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

on Love

"You can get addicted to trouble if you're not careful."

on Addiction

"Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with."

on Life