752 Quotes by Alice Hoffman

This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell,

But children can tell when love has been lost, they know when silence means peace and when it’s a sign of despair.

My mother’s blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.

You rescue something and you’re responsible for it. But maybe that’s what love is.

Some people can’t be warned away from disaster, you can try, you can put up every alert, but they’ll still go their own way.

Once you know some things, you can’t unknow them. It’s a burden that can never be given away.

Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you’re left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.

People really could be one way outside, when inside they were torn to shreds, a fine white powder of grief and regret replacing blood and bones, and no one even noticed.

Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that’s what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.