752 Quotes by Alice Hoffman

She didn’t like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she’d been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

Never watch another woman burn.

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.

If I hadn’t learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We’d seen what we’d come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.

I think growing up is difficult and it’s a process that I’m always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

Tell a witch to go, and she’ll plant her feet on the ground and stay exactly where she is. Instead of doing as she’s told, she’ll take a knife to her arm and let her blood drip onto the ground, and in that way she will claim the earth for herself and for her daughters and for all the daughters who follow her. It is the future she’s claiming, the right to be a woman who can do as she pleases.

That’s why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

Sometimes, running away means you’re headed in the exact right direction.

Franny whispered to Haylin all that she ever was and had been. She told him that she had always known what the future would be, and he said that if what she said was true, then she should have known a very long time ago that this was meant to be.