Quote

How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.

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
Stupid
Alone
Everything
Life
Ignore
Kingdoms
Red
Worth
Color

More quotes by 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
Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.
Alice Hoffman
Image
I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of thingsthat was why everything had to be perfect.
Alice Hoffman
Image
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.
Alice Hoffman
Image
I'm a really eclectic reader.
Alice Hoffman
Image
Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.
Alice Hoffman
Image
Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.
Alice Hoffman
Image
If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.
Alice Hoffman
Image
I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'.
Alice Hoffman
Image
I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.
Alice Hoffman
Image
I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?
Alice Hoffman
Image
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.
Alice Hoffman
Image
When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our friendship. Now I was the girl who'd stolen Andres the girl who'd lied to her about who I was. Therefore, she owned me nothing.
Alice Hoffman
Image
Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.
Alice Hoffman
Image
Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
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
Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
Alice Hoffman
Image
When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
Alice Hoffman
Image
That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.
Alice Hoffman
Image
You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you're not really there.
Alice Hoffman