752 Quotes by Alice Hoffman

A lifetime is a lifetime whether it lasts one night or a hundred years.

This day is going to be awful. It’s the sort of day you wouldn’t mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

It’s not easy. It never is. That is the secret our parents fail to tell us, out of kindness and love, but it’s a secret we need to know. Everything that begins, ends. Everything beautiful disappears.

I had never before noticed that rain contained every color within itself, green as the fields, blue as heaven, white as a lamb, yellow as my daughter’s hair.

I thought perhaps I had been wrong, too quick to judge the essence of a being by its appearance, still not fully understanding that, in the world God has given us, all things must change.

I never see a novel as a film while I’m writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I’m such an internal novelist.

I started to feel as though I were disappearing. Perhaps I myself was figment of my own imagination, a storm cloud, a wisp of smoke, a burning ember.

Mean people are meaningless.

Let everyone see the blood,′ he said. ‘Don’t clean it up. That’s the only way people remember.’... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.