Quote

Certain things need not be said, and there’s nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what’s about to happen.

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
Would
Prayer
Happens
Certain
Change
Whisper
Nothing
Payment
Need
Price
Needs
Sacrifice
Things
Happen

More quotes by Alice Hoffman

Image
The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.
Alice Hoffman
Image
My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. - Aunt Frances
Alice Hoffman
Image
I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.
Alice Hoffman
Image
I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing
Alice Hoffman
Image
Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
Alice Hoffman
Image
You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this
Alice Hoffman
Image
My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.
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
Image
Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.
Alice Hoffman
Image
I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.
Alice Hoffman
Image
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.
Alice Hoffman
Image
I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?
Alice Hoffman
Image
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.
Alice Hoffman
Image
When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
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
Only her death could prove her innocence a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.
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
We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.
Alice Hoffman
Image
I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
Alice Hoffman
Image
Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.
Alice Hoffman