Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
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
Ever
Way
Like
Shared
Childhood
Quite
Understand
Persons
Person
More quotes by Alice Hoffman
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
I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.
Alice Hoffman
I can't really work on more than one thing at a time
Alice Hoffman
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
Alice Hoffman
They weren't true stories they were better than that.
Alice Hoffman
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
Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.
Alice Hoffman
The more you feel, the stronger you are.
Alice Hoffman
The evening had turned sweet and blue.
Alice Hoffman
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
I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?
Alice Hoffman
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
This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.
Alice Hoffman
I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either.
Alice Hoffman
Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?
Alice Hoffman
My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.
Alice Hoffman
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
Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
Alice Hoffman
Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you.
Alice Hoffman
It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
Alice Hoffman
