752 Quotes by Alice Hoffman

It was a small ceremony at the town hall, and they didn’t exchange wedding rings, but they kissed for so long at the counter in the hall of records that they were asked to leave.

Love wasn’t rational; there was no proof that it even existed outside of people’s imaginings.

Even with her failing vision, Violet West could see the scars. They had turned purple, almost red, from the icy cold, the color of the pears on the tree in the yard, the color of blood that can’t be washed away and of things that can never be undone.

He wondered why it was only when you were at the end of your life that it was possible to view it with honesty and truth.

If she doesn’t make a move soon, they’re all going to pass her by and she’ll still be a child, afraid to leave her room, afraid to grow up.

She thinks of the way angels arrive, when you lease expect them, when the road is dark, when you’re bleeding and alone and hopeless, when you’re sleeping in a basement, convinced that no one knows you’re there.

You rescue something and you’re responsible for it. But maybe that’s what love is. Maybe it’s like a hit-and-run accident; it smashes you before you can think. You do it no matter the cost and you keep on running.

Women were hurt every day and kept the cause to themselves.

My father was both a scientist and a magician, but he declared that it was in literature wherein we discovered our truest natures.