752 Quotes by Alice Hoffman

It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone — maybe even more alone — than I was…

I thought you were supposed to be the champion of your people,' I said. I live because I need to do that. For anyone who is left.' Don't you see? No one will be left. Protect them now or there will be no one to protect!' This is a battle that goes on and on. It never ends. You're too young to understand. No! You're too much of a coward to fight.' I was sick of lies and secrets and of battles so old we had to erase who we were to fight back. And still we lost. Still we were tied to posts.

What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map of an individual’s soul.

And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.

I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.

Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you.

Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.