Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.
Alice Hoffman
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Someplace
Twelve
Felt
Didn
Place
Like
More quotes by Alice Hoffman
The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
Alice Hoffman
One of my favorites is Time and Again by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.
Alice Hoffman
If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.
Alice Hoffman
I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.
Alice Hoffman
Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?
Alice Hoffman
I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
Alice Hoffman
I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.
Alice Hoffman
That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.
Alice Hoffman
Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever.
Alice Hoffman
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
Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.
Alice Hoffman
Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
Alice Hoffman
People hide their truest nature. I understood that I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?
Alice Hoffman
I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
Alice Hoffman
Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope in their opinion, dirt could wait.
Alice Hoffman
A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.
Alice Hoffman
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.
Alice Hoffman
Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
Alice Hoffman
Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.
Alice Hoffman
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.
Alice Hoffman