752 Quotes by Alice Hoffman

She preferred cats to human beings and turned down every offer from the men who fell in love with her.

She wondered if dreamers knew they were in a dream while it was happening, or if they had no idea that everything around them was purely imagined until the dream had gone.

Don’t make me sit through reality.

She takes the fortune cookies from the bottom of the bag and throws them into a glass bowl she keeps in the closet. She has no desire to know what her future might hold.

Truth felt light and green, but a lie sunk to the floor, heavy as metal, a substance she always avoided for it made her feel as though she was trapped behind bars.

As I turned the pages, I felt as if there were bees on my fingertips, for I had never felt so alive as when reading.

Every woman is only one bad boyfriend or one bad choice away from the street. And she’s only one good choice back to the path that will lead her home.

Hochman had been right, the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep it close or let it go. Fate was both what we were given and what we made for ourselves.

A woman who knows what she wants, Adelle always told me, is likely to receive it.