752 Quotes by Alice Hoffman

What else is there to write about than love and loss?

Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.

I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay

My grandmother told me once that when you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well, but that's not the way things turn out in the end. Eventually, you pick yourself up and look out the window, and once you do you see everything that was there before the world ended is out there still. There are the same apple trees and the same songbirds, and over our heads, the very same sky that shines like heaven, so far above us we can never hope to reach such heights.

A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten ...

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

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction

Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.

I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.