752 Quotes by Alice Hoffman

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.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they’re spoken and you can never take them back.

Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn’t unknow.

Nowadays, she doesn’t even look in a mirror. She’s afraid no one will be staring back at her.

I wasn’t good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.

Just because something is unspoken doesn’t mean that it disappears.

In our world of shadows, there is no black and white but a thousand different strokes of light”.

They weren’t true stories; they were better than that.

He’d thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.