Alice Hoffman Quotes

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

You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.

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

Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.

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

No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone.

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

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.

Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.

Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out, and a lie is always a lie, no matter how prettily told. Some doors, once they're opened, can never be closed again, just as some trust, once it's been lost, can never be won back.

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

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

Books may well be the only true magic.

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.

Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.

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

People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?

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.

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.

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

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