“… 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.”Alice Hoffman Source: Local Girls
“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.”Alice Hoffman book Practical MagicSource: Practical Magic
“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.”Alice Hoffman book Blackbird HouseSource: Blackbird House
“Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.”Alice Hoffman Source: Incantation
“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.”Alice Hoffman book Practical MagicSource: Practical Magic
“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.”Alice Hoffman Source: Green Heart
“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.”Alice Hoffman book The DovekeepersSource: The Dovekeepers