752 Quotes by Alice Hoffman

My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.

My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.

...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go." From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102.

Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.

Remember what I've told you. Remember me.

You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.

Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.