752 Quotes by Alice Hoffman

I was making a different sort of heart, one that was black, one that was protected by thorns, by bats, by raven’s wings, by sorrow, by my aloneness, my armour.

This is what happens when you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is no longer your own.

He carries books everywhere he goes so he won’t have to be bored by people.

But chains made out of blood and memory were a thousand times more difficult to sever than those made of steel, and the past could overtake a person if she wasn’t careful.

One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her. She was so busy forgetting, she couldn’t take a single step into the future.

I think of life as a book of stories. You move through the stories and the characters change. But once you have a name on your skin you are stuck with one story, even if it’s a bad one.

I can’t really work on more than one thing at a time.

Then I understood that when someone begins to tell you her story, you are entwined together. Perhaps even more so if the ending hasn’t been divulged. It was exactly like dreaming the same dream, then waking too soon and never finding out what had happened.

I’m fated to lose everyone I ever love,” April said. “I already know that.” “Of course you are,” Jet responded in her calm, measured tone. “That’s what it means to be alive.