Alice Hoffman Quotes

There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.

There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas and spelled out in contracts and poems and sighs, in old whispers and song lyrics, in promises and vows.

Shut up and do not think. All the theorists agree: shut up and keep the words from being said. And all of the scars will remain invisible; and all of the scars will remain under the skin. Where they belong.

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.

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

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

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.

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

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

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.

My mother was teaching me that the inside of something was not necessarily its outside. Always look carefully, she told me. Look with more than your eyes.

Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind.

But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.

He knew even at an early age of seven, how dangerous it was for someone like him to have hope. He knows how to have no expectations. He can completely control not just what he wants, but what he needs

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.

Books may well be the only true magic.

Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.