Quotes by Alice Hoffman

“I knew what happened in fairy tales. The strong survived while the weak were eaten alive.”

“Certain things need not be said, and theres nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change whats about to happen.”

“I understood that fate could not be eluded forever; it came on leathery wings, swooping through the darkness like the bats in the orchards.”

“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.”

“Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.”

“The story became a cloud, and the cloud a sheet of rain, and rain fell throughout the empire.”

“I want the difficult stories, the ones that arent easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most of all.”

“But I was not a mouse. In the fields where I walked, I was much more interested in the actions of the hawks.”

“She has an eye for tragedy and sorrow. Show her a rose and she'll see only the wasp in the center of the bloom.”

“Your sorrow will become smaller, like a star in the daylight that you can't even see. It's there, shining, but there is also a vast expanse of blue sky.”

“Time wasn't the same anymore. Doors were slamming shut before we even knew they'd been opened. Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.”

“I wrote Seventh Heaven for my mother who I miss eve”

“The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.”

“Such was the case with most unhappy students; they avoided even one another, so intent on their own unhappiness they failed to notice the other lost souls around them.”

“It was amazing how many colors there were, all running into the gutter in a stream: a dozen shades of blue, twenty different reds, and all that black soot, like a nightmare given form, the insides ...”

“I only have one story now.The story was heroin. It was made out of sensation, not words; it was invisible and murderous and unstoppable. Sam disappeared from her slowly, like a snowman melting, unt...”

“She thinks of the way angels arrive, when you lease expect them, when the road is dark, when you're bleeding and alone and hopeless, when you're sleeping in a basement, convinced that no one knows ...”

“It had made her too helpless, because that's what love did. There was no way around it and no way to fight it. Now if she lost, she lost everything.”

“You should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind.”

“She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me.”