752 Quotes by Alice Hoffman

Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he’ll love you forever isn’t finished with you until he’s done.

You once said that just as anything whole can be broken, anything broken can be put back together again.

It doesn’t matter what people tell you. It doesn’t matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you’re headed in the exact right direction.

But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say ‘No. I disagree.’ that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.

Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another’s heart in your hand.

That is how you know you’ve left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

What makes a dangerous woman, however, was not always so apparent, for what is unnoticeable to the human eye is often the most deadly attribute.

It was so much easier to see another person’s future than it was to understand your own. Even when you kept your eyes wide open, the world would surprise you.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.