Quotes by Alice Hoffman

About Alice Hoffman:

Alice Hoffman is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1996 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.
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We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

Alice Hoffman

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

Alice Hoffman

My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.

Alice Hoffman

Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to catch it, hold it in your hand. It disappears every time.

Alice Hoffman

I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren’t easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most of all.

Alice Hoffman

...early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills.

Alice Hoffman

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

Alice Hoffman

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

Alice Hoffman

Children would beg for a peppermint drop each time he walked into town, and they'd follow behind, asking for a second and a third. When he died suddenly, while working late at his office, every boy and girl in the village reported smelling mint in th...

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When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through crac...

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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.

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.

Alice Hoffman

They sealed this promise by hooking pinkies, the way they used to, long ago, when promises didn't hurt as much.

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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 pa...

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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

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help.

Alice Hoffman

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.

Alice Hoffman

If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandau...

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameAlice Hoffman
  • DescriptionNovelist, young-adult writer, children's writer
  • BornMarch 16, 1952
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Author