Alice Hoffman: Trending quotes (page 4)

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The best way to die is when your living”

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

“Whoever knows you when you are young can look inside you and see the person you once were, and maybe still are at certain times.”

“You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.”

“But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.”

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

“It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.”

“Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.”

“People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.”

“The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day.”

“She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.”

“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.”

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

“This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.”

“It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.”