Quotes by Alice Hoffman

“Stone should last forever, but on that night I came to understand that a stone was only another form of dust. Streams of holy dust loomed in the air, and every breath included remnants of the Templ...”

“They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eyes closed he would often make a noise that sounded quite human, as if greeting someone in his drea...”

“I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.”

“I knew the power of a single wish, after all. Invisible and inevitable, like a butterfly that beats its wings in one corner of the globe and with that single action changes the weather halfway acro...”

“Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.”

“Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.”

“As for Gus, he had come to Haddan with no appreciation for the human race and no expectations of his fellow man. He was full ready to confront contempt; he'd been beleaguered and insulted often eno...”

“I thought he knew me better than most...Then one nigh Jack brought me flowers, a handful of fading daisies he'd picked up at a farm stand, but flowers all the same. That was the end; that was how h...”

“Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as ...”

“Love someone and they're yours forever”

“For six months I did what women do: I waited. This is what women are taught to be good at. It's said that a woman's life is merely preparation for the primal nine-month wait. Whatever the reason, t...”

“...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.”