752 Quotes by Alice Hoffman

Any institution becomes a community – whether it’s a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

That’s the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.

Whoever knows you when you are young can look inside you and see the person you once were, and maybe still are at certain times.

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

When you change your name you change your fate as well.

Fate is what you make it, or you will be what it makes of you.

Do people choose the art that inspires them – do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.

It’s not finding what’s lost, it’s understanding what you’ve found.

Remember what I’ve told you. Remember me.