752 Quotes by Alice Hoffman

I don’t think I make much of a distinction between the ‘real’ and the ‘fantastic.’ They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I’m concerned.

Children would beg for a peppermint drop each time he walked into town, and they’d follow behind, asking for a second and a third. When he died suddenly, while working late at his office, every boy and girl in the village reported smelling mint in the night air, as if somehing sweet had passed them right by.

The truth frightens people because it isn’t stable. It shifts every day. If you’d prefer to remain in the dark, I would understand.

As Gary understands it, the greatest portion of grief is the one you dish out for yourself, and he and Sally have both served themselves from the same table tonight, the only difference being that he knows what he’s missing, and she has no idea what is causing her to cry as she drives down the Turnpike.

I wasn’t quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn’t sure she knew me either.

All things change, for that is the way of the world we walk through.

My expectations of what I wanted in a man I learned from a dog: loyalty and kindness.

Don’t worry. I’m not afraid of words.

He realized how little he knew of this world, but he knew this: If you could love someone, you possessed a soul.