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Alice Hoffman Inspirational Quotes (226)

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I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.
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He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.
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Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.
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What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk or a gate could just appear in a wall. I think fairy tales are so psychological.
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That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.
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We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.
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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.
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Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.
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I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay
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They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.
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That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.
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I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.
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Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.
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She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.
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Pride is a funny thing it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.
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Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.
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Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.
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Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.
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We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as if they'd never walked and talked and burned, forgetting them was the real evil. That was the hole of darkness.
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Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.
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I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.
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It's not the lie that's the problem it's the distance the lie forges between you.
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I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.
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Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.
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