Alice Hoffman Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.”
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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.”
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“I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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“When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their way into attics. At night,the dark is blue and bluer still, as sapphire of night.”
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“He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.”
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“Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”
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“Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.”
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“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.”
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“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances”
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“Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.”
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“They weren't true stories; they were better than that.”
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“Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.”
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“Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by”
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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.”
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“All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are”
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“When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.”
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“They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.”
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“Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in the rain and the ones that left a trace of lemon on your fingers, the ones that were the color of blood, and those that were as white as clouds. Each one was sweeter than the next and as red as gemstones.”
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“Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.”
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“But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.”
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“My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.”
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“Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.”
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“Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.”
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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”
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“No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written”
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