Alice Hoffman

Author

1952-03-16

Quotes by Alice Hoffman

• She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.

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• The best way to die is when your living

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• I once believed that life was a gift. I thought whatever I wanted I would someday possess. Is that greed, or only youth? Is it hope or stupidity? As far as I was concerned the future was a book I could write to suit myself, chapter after chapter of good fortune. All was right with the world, and my place in it was assured, or so I thought then. I had no idea that all stories unfold like white flowers, petal by petal, each in its own time and season, dependant on circumstances and fate. ~ Green Heart, Alice Hoffman

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• 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.

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• James had a theory about caged birds, one he hoped to prove when he became a scientist someday. He believed that all birds that had their freedom taken from them eventually lost their voices. Once that happened, they could never find their true song.

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• He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate. Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent.

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• It's still horrible to wish the worst on anyone. I'm sure she had her reasons. Maybe people hurt her feelings, the same way I was hurt. A single word can feel like a rock being thrown at you.

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• I'm trying to find someone who doesn't want to be found.That can be as hard as looking for a shadow.

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• It was a miracle to live as birds do, except for one thing: anyone seen in flight would surely be captured, perhaps even shot down like a crow flying above a cornfield. It's always dangerous to be different, to appear as a monster in most people's eyes, even from a distance.

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• Mean people are meaningless.

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• I head a bitterness that hadn't been there before. Something was changing inside him. He'd had enough of following the rules.

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• Love was never a mistake,even when it wasn't returned.

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• He carried so much suffering that it radiated out in waves. Sorrow is like that: whenever a person runs, it comes after him; it leaves an endless trail of pain.

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• Don't make me sit through reality.

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• He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.

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• Pain was something to get used to, to inure yourself against. I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of purpose and without remorse.

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• From the time I could read, I found solace in my father's library...At the ages of ten and eleven and twelve I would have preferred to remain in the library...

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• Perhaps I was drawn to stories in which people found their true desires because I was a stranger to myself.

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• Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft.

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• Life was beautiful, everyone knew that, but it was also bitter and bleak and unfair as hell and where did that leave a person? On the outs with the rest of the world. Someone who sat alone in the cafeteria, reading, escaping from his hometown simply by turning the page.

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