752 Quotes by Alice Hoffman

But Sally didn’t have the heart to fight back. She wore dark clothes and tried not to be noticed. She pretended she wasn’t smart and never raised her hand in class. She disguised her own nature so well that after a while she grew uncertain of her own abilities.

When you are young you are looking forward and when you are old you are looking back.

Lightning, like love, is never ruled by logic.

For what you can fix, there are a hundred remedies. For what cannot be cured, not even words will do.

Everyone should know exactly what everyone else is thinking and then people wouldn’t hurt each other so much.

Here lies the life I might have had once upon a time, the man I might have loved for all my life, the days we might have had.

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her – she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don’t.

A halo around the moon is always a sign of disruption, either a change in the weather, a fever to come, or a streak of bad fortune that won’t go away. But when it’s a double ring, all tangled and snarled, like an agitated rainbow or a love affair gone wrong, anything can happen.

I had lost my mother and my father and my sister, and sometimes when I caught a glimpse of myself in a shop window, I wondered if perhaps I hadn’t lost myself as well.