Alice Hoffman quotes

Books may well be the only true magic. (Alice Hoffman)
It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction. View quote
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Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think. View quote
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Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more. View quote
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Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going. View quote
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Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected. View quote
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Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure. View quote
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Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with. View quote
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When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure. View quote
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Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more. View quote
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You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood. (Alice Hoffman)
Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs. View quote
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Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon. View quote
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I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes. View quote
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I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them. View quote
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I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us. View quote
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No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written. View quote
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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. View quote
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The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe. View quote
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Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears. View quote
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Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow. (Alice Hoffman)
Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often. View quote
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In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone. View quote
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No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way. View quote
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Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done. View quote
Alice Hoffman