Alice Hoffman quotes - page 4

Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them. (Alice Hoffman)
Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene. View quote
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The best way to die is when your living. View quote
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I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for. View quote
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Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people. View quote
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Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them. View quote
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I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist. View quote
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...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not. View quote
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You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil. View quote
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That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination. View quote
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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. (Alice Hoffman)
He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say. View quote
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Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away. View quote
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Here's the thing about luck... you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective. View quote
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Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul. View quote
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I didn't want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became. View quote
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I can hurt myself more than anyone else can," she told her sister. "I can do it with my eyes closed. View quote
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Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back. View quote
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She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless. View quote
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What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong. View quote
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This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter. (Alice Hoffman)
Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by. View quote
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Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head. View quote
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Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working. View quote
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Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time! View quote
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