Alice Hoffman Quotes

“That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.”

Source: Practical Magic

“I can hurt myself more than anyone else can," she told her sister. "I can do it with my eyes closed.”

Source: Here on Earth

“The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.”

Source: The Story Sisters

“Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.”

Source: Here on Earth

“You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.”

Source: Practical Magic

“I was beginning to understand. My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things; that was why everything had to be perfect.”

Source: The Ice Queen

Alice Hoffman Quotes about love

“Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.'…'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.”

Source: Incantation

“Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.”

Source: Incantation

“Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.”

Source: The Dovekeepers

“When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.”

Source: Practical Magic

“Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.”

Source: Here on Earth

“Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were.
And what we remember.”

Source: The Story Sisters

Alice Hoffman Quotes about people

“People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?”

Source: Incantation

“What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.”

Source: The Ice Queen

“It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.”

Source: Green Witch

“She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.”

Source: Practical Magic

“Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?”

Source: The Red Garden

“Books may well be the only true magic.”

Source: The Ice Queen

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“Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”

“Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.”

Source: Practical Magic

“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances”

Source: Incantation

Alice Hoffman Quotes

“The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.”

Source: Practical Magic

“When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.”

Source: Practical Magic

“Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.”

Source: The Story Sisters

“… he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go."

From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102.”

Source: The Ice Queen

“Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.”

Source: Local Girls

“Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.”

Source: Practical Magic

“Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.”

Source: The Ice Queen

“Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.”

Source: Incantation

“The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.”

Source: Practical Magic

“Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.”

Source: The Foretelling

“My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.”

Source: Practical Magic

Alice Hoffman book Green Angel

Source: Green Angel

“Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.”

“I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.”

Source: Incantation

“Here's the thing about luck… you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.”

Source: Practical Magic

“Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.”

Source: Local Girls

“Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.”

Source: Local Girls

“In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier.
We all grieve alone.”

Source: The Story Sisters

“He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.”

Source: Incantation

Alice Hoffman book Blackbird House

Source: Blackbird House

“That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.”

“Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.”

“Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.”

Source: Practical Magic

“No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.”

Source: Incantation

“Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.”

Source: Practical Magic

“I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all.

In no time, what I wished for, I became.”

Source: The Ice Queen

Alice Hoffman book Green Angel

Source: Green Angel

“I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.”

“Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.”

Source: The Dovekeepers

“Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I’d always felt safer with stories than with flesh and blood.”

Source: Incantation

“Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.”

Source: The Ice Queen

“She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.”

Source: Practical Magic

“Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?”

Source: Green Heart

“You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.”

Source: The Dovekeepers

“I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.”

Source: Incantation

“Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.”

Source: Green Witch

“She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.”

Source: Practical Magic

“What men yearn for they often destroy.”

Source: Here on Earth

“You can never tell about a person by guessing… that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.”

Source: The Dovekeepers

“It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.”

Source: Practical Magic

“(Love) walks up to you, and when it does, you need to recognize it for what it is and, perhaps more important, for what it might become.”

Source: Here on Earth

“We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.”

Source: The Museum of Extraordinary Things

“Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.”

Source: The Dovekeepers

“Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.”

Source: Here on Earth

“Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.”

Source: The Story Sisters

“I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.”

Source: Practical Magic

“Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.”

Source: Incantation

“Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.”

Source: The River King

“I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.”

Source: The Dovekeepers

“Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.”

Source: The Dovekeepers

“The best way to die is when your living”

Source: The Dovekeepers

“It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.”