Quote

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

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
World
Outrun
Paid
Understood
Attention
Cannot
Things
Would

More quotes by 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
She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.
Alice Hoffman
Image
What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets each card contained the map of an individual’s soul.
Alice Hoffman
Image
The only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep,those haunted by one thing or another:love thwarted, love lost, love thrown away. They were the sort of people who didn't want to be noticed, who wanted to slip through shadows, be alone with their despair.
Alice Hoffman
Image
And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.
Alice Hoffman
Image
There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in the rain and the ones that left a trace of lemon on your fingers, the ones that were the color of blood, and those that were as white as clouds. Each one was sweeter than the next and as red as gemstones.
Alice Hoffman
Image
Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.
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
Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
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
My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible.
Alice Hoffman
Image
Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.
Alice Hoffman
Image
When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.
Alice Hoffman
Image
Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were. And what we remember.
Alice Hoffman
Image
She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.
Alice Hoffman
Image
Books may well be the only true magic.
Alice Hoffman
Image
Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
Alice Hoffman
Image
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
Image
I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.
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