Quotes from Alice Hoffman

Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

What men yearn for they often destroy.

My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.

Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.

Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.

A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was.

What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.

In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man."

I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.

We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.

Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

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.

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

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

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.

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 you can.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.

When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.