Quote

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

Alice Hoffman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Love
Weather
Elements
Sure
Two
Done
Never

More quotes by Alice Hoffman

Image
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
Image
...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go. From Alice Hoffman's Local Girls, pg.102.
Alice Hoffman
Image
You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.
Alice Hoffman
Image
Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.
Alice Hoffman
Image
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.
Alice Hoffman
Image
What else is there to write about than love and loss?
Alice Hoffman
Image
No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.
Alice Hoffman
Image
The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild irises... that the color of the sky was a shade that could never be replicated in any photograph, just as Heaven could never be seen from the confines of Earth.
Alice Hoffman
Image
This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell.
Alice Hoffman
Image
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.
Alice Hoffman
Image
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.
Alice Hoffman
Image
Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.
Alice Hoffman
Image
Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
Alice Hoffman
Image
Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
Alice Hoffman
Image
I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.
Alice Hoffman
Image
Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
Alice Hoffman
Image
He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.
Alice Hoffman
Image
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.
Alice Hoffman
Image
This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.
Alice Hoffman
Image
In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.
Alice Hoffman