Quotes by Alice Hoffman
No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.
You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.
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.
Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.
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.
He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.
Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.
I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.
Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out,and a lie is always a lie, no matter how prettily told. Some doors, once they're opened,can never be closed again, just as some trust, once it's been lost, can never be won back.
People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.
Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.
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.
Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.