Alice Hoffman: Trending quotes

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Books may well be the only true magic.”

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

“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.”

“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”

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

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

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

“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?”

“… 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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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