752 Quotes by Alice Hoffman

We must do as we're told," Ava reminded her. "We will honor your mother and follow her instructions.""Because she is your maker?" Lea asked, her heart breaking.Ava shook her head. "Because she is yours.

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.

Don't make me sit through reality.

My mother was teaching me that the inside of something was not necessarily its outside. Always look carefully, she told me. Look with more than your eyes.

When Juliet came flying down the hallway, Stella didn't recognize her friend. Juliet hadn't bothered with makeup; she was wearing a nightgown underneath her raincoat and had on plastic flip-flops. This was the way loved walked in, barely dressed, confused, panic-stricken, overcome, not caring what anyone thought or what they believed.

She kissed him first, and all the rest followed.

There are so many ways to stop the knowing, and I tried them all. I tried silence, I tried heroin, I tried calling it love. And then I stopped trying to call my dumbness any one of ten thousand names.

... the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep it close or let it go.

... a man always revealed his own inner story in his actions and expressions. A man's past deeds foretold his future and allowed anyone with half a brain to divine the path he would take.