Alice Hoffman Quotes

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“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.”

“… but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.”

“In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.”

“Life is beautiful, just very unfair.”