752 Quotes by Alice Hoffman

Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.

Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.

Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

Any weapon touched by a woman, even by accident, must be cleansed with both water and prayer so that her essence would not linger, diverting the warrior who might use it next, for even the faintest touch could bring lust to that man's heart. Perhaps that meant a woman who was well trained in arms would be the superior warrior, her attention never wavering from her task.

In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.

He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.