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She judged people smartly and quickly, and often found herself in a huff. — Alice Hoffman

Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I'd always felt safer with stories than with flesh and blood. — Alice Hoffman

A breeze had come up and there was the scent of loam in the air. Hay and fertilizer. Sweet grass and wild ginger. April. — Alice Hoffman

He must be an idiot to feel this way, but there's nothing he can do. He doesn't even know if he can manage to speak. — Alice Hoffman

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life. — Alice Hoffman

You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil. — Alice Hoffman

Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft. — Alice Hoffman

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! — Alice Hoffman

The story became a cloud, and the cloud a sheet of rain, and rain fell throughout the empire. — Alice Hoffman

Sam said, Hey, you want to get high?
Amy had taken his words to mean You are so beautiful I am undone by you. — Alice Hoffman

Over the years I had grown attached to it, as men grow attached to their miseries and their burdens. — Alice Hoffman

But try as you might to protect people from danger, you cannot keep them from their true nature. — Alice Hoffman

Let my burden be your burden, and yours be mine. — Alice Hoffman

I would not begin to understand until I was a very old woman, and even then they would still be a mystery. — Alice Hoffman

Women were hurt every day and kept the cause to themselves. — Alice Hoffman

Everyone should know exactly what everyone else is thinking and then people wouldn't hurt each other so much. — Alice Hoffman

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination. — Alice Hoffman

I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled. — Alice Hoffman

Unleavened Bread, all — Alice Hoffman

Griffon vultures, the strong, fearless creatures we called nesher that — Alice Hoffman

It had been better to have viewed him from a distance, so that his flaws were left unseen. — Alice Hoffman

I understood wanting to forget. Things that made you remember cut like pieces of glass. — Alice Hoffman

what does love matter in a world where it's so easy to hurt someone? — Alice Hoffman

The best way to die is when your living — Alice Hoffman

Shelby watched the books burn. She wonders if words are pouring down on other people's houses,sad words, like beast and mourn and sorrow and mother. — Alice Hoffman

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

When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character. — Alice Hoffman

She feels her love inside her as if it were as tangible as blood and bones. They'll — Alice Hoffman

I never once stopped to consider that what you are given can also be taken away. — Alice Hoffman

I wondered if all creatures were drawn to what was dangerous or if we merely wanted light at any cost and were willing to burn for our desires. — Alice Hoffman

He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had. — Alice Hoffman

I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived. — Alice Hoffman

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

Listen, and you'll hear a story being told, one you may need to know. — Alice Hoffman

What looked empty was full, much like water in a cup. What was most important was invisible to the eye. THE — Alice Hoffman

With every step I wished myself away to another life, one lived far from here. — Alice Hoffman

And what of monsters? Can they love too? We know quite well they can. For we know that they do. — Alice Hoffman

Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected. — Alice Hoffman

And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal. — Alice Hoffman

The day had begun, cool and clear and absolutely impossible to avoid — Alice Hoffman

You are my armour and my sword, my faith and my treasure, everything I'm fighting for. — Alice Hoffman

If you do not face something, it will follow you anyway. — Alice Hoffman

She wishes nightmares were all that kept her awake. She cannot tell which disturbs here more, the future or the past. — Alice Hoffman

She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all. — Alice Hoffman

I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing. — Alice Hoffman

She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me. — Alice Hoffman

The river runs every shade of blue that has ever been known to humankind: ink and turquoise and lapis, indigo, teal, cerulean, and ultramarine. — Alice Hoffman

You can get addicted to trouble if you're not careful. — Alice Hoffman

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure. — Alice Hoffman

Your grand daughter may not be looking for trouble, but trouble is looking for her. — Alice Hoffman

What is behind you is gone, what is in front of you awaits. — Alice Hoffman

Someone killed himself because of me once, Meredith said.
People kill themselves because of what's inside of them, not because of other people. — Alice Hoffman

We had been together as animals were, desperate and driven by a fierce need — Alice Hoffman

How had love come to this? This twisted dark place. The phone calls, the fear, the look on his face when he drove by the house. — Alice Hoffman

Is it not beautiful?" I said of the world around us.
"Is it not terrible? — Alice Hoffman

Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost. — Alice Hoffman

What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree. — Alice Hoffman

Love was never a mistake,even when it wasn't returned. — Alice Hoffman

He spoke with a raven's voice, old and wise and far above the cruelty of the human race. — Alice Hoffman

I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming. — Alice Hoffman

Who but a fool would stay in one place and butt her head against the same window time and again? — Alice Hoffman

She's beginning to wonder if perhaps she's haunting herself. — Alice Hoffman

Do you ever get the feeling that your life isn't really your own, and you've just sort of let things happen to you? — Alice Hoffman

Ghosts are said to move in the corners of human sight. — Alice Hoffman

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. — Alice Hoffman

They carried what was holy within them, for every man was a temple, and every prayer spoken could be heard by our Father above us. — Alice Hoffman

She had come to believe that if her father had wanted a docile daughter, he should never have allowed her access to the ocean. — Alice Hoffman

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

But maybe a broken heart seemed a simple price to pay, the way that all costs that must be settled in the future appear, until they suddenly come due. — Alice Hoffman

You couldn't see love, or touch it, or taste it, yet it could destroy you and leave you in the dark, chasing after your own destiny. — Alice Hoffman

He carries books everywhere he goes so he won't have to be bored by people. — Alice Hoffman

One morning when the air was misleading and mild with hope ... — Alice Hoffman

I'm glad it all happened," he says, "Even the bad parts. — Alice Hoffman

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. — Alice Hoffman

My expectations of what I wanted in a man I learned from a dog: loyalty and kindness. — Alice Hoffman

If anything, love was like light, illuminating what no one would have ever guessed was there in the darkness. — Alice Hoffman

She kissed him first, and all the rest followed. — Alice Hoffman

My father was both a scientist and a magician, but he declared that it was in literature wherein we discovered our truest natures. — Alice Hoffman

He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted. — Alice Hoffman

This was what it was. The ruin of it. The depth of it. Have it once and you can have it again. That's the riddle. That's the truth. — Alice Hoffman

He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one. — Alice Hoffman

But now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not. — Alice Hoffman

Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears. — Alice Hoffman

Sometimes movies really are the best medicine. — Alice Hoffman

Did you not think this was what the world was like? the Man from the Valley said to me. — Alice Hoffman

That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it. — Alice Hoffman

That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife. — Alice Hoffman

hand, I felt empty. They — Alice Hoffman

Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace. — Alice Hoffman

I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream. — Alice Hoffman

Then let us be among those who hope that the future will be less cruel than the past. — Alice Hoffman

(Love) walks up to you,and when it does, you need to recognize it for what it is and, perhaps more important, for what it might become. — Alice Hoffman

Dreams came to men for many reasons, both as oracles and as warnings. — Alice Hoffman

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. — Alice Hoffman

If she felt my gaze upon her, I assume she was accustomed to being stared at, just as I was used to wanting what I could not have. — Alice Hoffman

I was not pleased to be sent from my mother, but I occupied myself, a skill learned by children who must sometimes act older than their age. — Alice Hoffman

Writers don't choose their craft; they need to write in order to face the world. — Alice Hoffman

My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden. — Alice Hoffman

Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words. — Alice Hoffman

He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find. — Alice Hoffman