752 Quotes by Alice Hoffman

Once you possess something others do not, you are a target for the wicked.

That was how evil spoke. It made its own corrupt sense; it swore that the good were evil, and that evil had come to save mankind.

She had told me often enough to keep my mouth shut, and now I did exactly that. I abolished all language on the day of my father’s funeral.

She had wanted to be a bird, but now she knew, as she looked out the window to see Lewis following, that even birds are chained to earth by their needs and desires.

Life is beautiful, just very unfair.

You don’t need wealth to appreciate something beautiful.

I wondered if all creatures were drawn to what was dangerous or if we merely wanted light at any cost and were willing to burn for our desires.

Desire had a way of making a person oddly courageous.

She shuffled her feet as she was told that she had been taken in by the family as an infant, and that every family in town without a daughter adopted a girl infant or child. She was raised to inherit the laundry and the housekeeping, the cooking and the sorrow, and the kindling of the fire in the early morning when no one else would even think of getting out from beneath the mountains of blankets and quilts.