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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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.

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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 ...

Alice Hoffman

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.

Alice Hoffman

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.

Alice Hoffman

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

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Clearly, his winks were some sort of superpower, because I swear that if he asked me to jump from the roof of a tall building and then winked, I’d jump.

Alice Hoffman

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

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You want me to lie to you?" said McKay. I shrugged. Why not? I didn't mind lies.

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I’d been waiting for you to come along; I just didn’t know it until you smiled at me.

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Once I knew nothing about McKay and now I knew everything about him. This seemed as good as any reason for not walking out the door. There are so many ways to stop the knowing, and I tried them all. I tried silence, I tried heroin, I tried calling it...

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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.

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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, they do it well. Sometimes they drink or bite their fi...

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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.

Alice Hoffman

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

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Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by.

Alice Hoffman

Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

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I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled.

Alice Hoffman

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.

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I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

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It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

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I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

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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