Quote

You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.

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
Worthy
Prove

More quotes by Alice Hoffman

Image
Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.
Alice Hoffman
Image
He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.
Alice Hoffman
Image
But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
Alice Hoffman
Image
Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.
Alice Hoffman
Image
Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
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
It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was.
Alice Hoffman
Image
The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe
Alice Hoffman
Image
When I read Jerome D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought that book was speaking to me. I was 12 or 13 when I read that. I read everything on my mother's bookshelves.
Alice Hoffman
Image
Books may well be the only true magic.
Alice Hoffman
Image
You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.
Alice Hoffman
Image
Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.
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
In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.
Alice Hoffman
Image
I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.
Alice Hoffman
Image
...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.
Alice Hoffman
Image
I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them
Alice Hoffman
Image
Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.
Alice Hoffman
Image
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
Image
He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.
Alice Hoffman