752 Quotes by Alice Hoffman

They had likely been together twenty times, an entire world created in just days.

I had heard it said that Malachi wrote so beautifully the angels came to watch, for words were the first thing God created out of the silence and were still the most beautiful of His creations.

In two weeks a man could completely refashion his history; he could walk all the way to Ohio or Iowa, change his name and his accent, disappear into another life. In the woods, footprints faded, the wind rose up to disperse of clothing, flesh became grass.

Isn’t that what love makes you do? Go on trying even when you’re through. Go on even when you’re made of ash, when there’s nothing left inside you but the past?

He knew even at an early age of seven, how dangerous it was for someone like him to have hope. He knows how to have no expectations. He can completely control not just what he wants, but what he needs.

I felt I had come upon the core of the meaning of life, to discover and re-create beauty.

She has an eye for tragedy and sorrow. Show her a rose and she’ll see only the wasp in the center of the bloom.

Maybe he understands that saying thank you can be just as hard as saying good-bye.

Each morning when I arrive, the doves know me; their song rises and falls with pleasure and acceptance. It is always there, a river of sound.