752 Quotes by Alice Hoffman

... hoping that if she just walked down the same street fate would whirl her backward in time until she was once more (fill in your age), when the future was something she had not yet stepped into, when it was just an idea, a moment, something that had not disappointed her yet.

I hope you're happy," she said to Mrs. James."Happiness is for fools." Helena James shrugged. "So I wish that for you.

Bespomoćnost i gnjev izazivaju predvidljivo ponašanje: djeca se naguravaju i potežu za kosu, tinejdžeri se nazivaju pogrdnim nazivima i plaču, a odrasle žene koje su sestre izgovorit će si riječi tako okrutne da će svaki slog poprimiti oblik zmije, iako se takva zmija često smota oko sebe i ugrize za vlastiti rep, jednom kad se riječi glasno izgovore.

She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.

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.

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

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.

I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment. Now I knew how I would feel if I ever lost him. That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.

Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.