Quote

What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.

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
Dream
Someone
Nothing
Unable
Believe
Grow
People
Told
Grows
Wrong
Didn

More quotes by Alice Hoffman

Image
I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.
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
Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
Alice Hoffman
Image
I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
Alice Hoffman
Image
Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.
Alice Hoffman
Image
My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.
Alice Hoffman
Image
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.
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
Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.
Alice Hoffman
Image
He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.
Alice Hoffman
Image
Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.
Alice Hoffman
Image
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
Image
You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone.
Alice Hoffman
Image
If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.
Alice Hoffman
Image
They weren't true stories they were better than that.
Alice Hoffman
Image
I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working
Alice Hoffman
Image
He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.
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
Remember what I've told you. Remember me.
Alice Hoffman
Image
Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. The ever after, what precisely was that? Your dreams, your life, your death, your everything. Was it the blank space that went on without us? The forever after we were gone?
Alice Hoffman