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Alice Hoffman is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.



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✵ 16. March 1952  •  Other names آلیس هافمن, アリス・ホフマン
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Alice Hoffman Quotes

“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.”

Alice Hoffman

Source: The Marriage of Opposites

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

Alice Hoffman book The Dovekeepers

Source: The Dovekeepers

“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.”

Alice Hoffman

Source: Incantation

“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.”

Alice Hoffman

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

Alice Hoffman

Source: Incantation

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

Alice Hoffman book Practical Magic

Source: Practical Magic

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

Alice Hoffman

Source: The Museum of Extraordinary Things

“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.”

Alice Hoffman The Story Sisters

Source: The Story Sisters

“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.”

Alice Hoffman book Here on Earth

Source: Here on Earth

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

Alice Hoffman

Source: The Museum of Extraordinary Things

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

Alice Hoffman book The Ice Queen

Source: The Ice Queen

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

Alice Hoffman

Source: Incantation

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

Alice Hoffman The Story Sisters

Source: The Story Sisters

“Life is beautiful, just very unfair.”

Alice Hoffman

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