Quotes from Alice Hoffman

Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.

In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.

When you were young you were afraid of ghosts, and when you were aged you called them to you.

As I turned the pages, I felt as if there were bees on my fingertips, for I had never felt so alive as when reading.

She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.

I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.

But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.

But now I understood that, although words were God's first creation, silence was closer to His divine spirit, and that prayers given in silence were infinitely greater than the thousands of words men might offer up to heaven.

Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die. At least, that's the way we're planning it.

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.

They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eyes closed he would often make a noise that sounded quite human, as if greeting someone in his dreams. At first it seemed that he believed Sara would return, but as the years went by I understood that his loyalty asked for no reward, and that love comes in unexpected forms. His wish was small, as hers had been -- merely to be beside her. As for me, I already knew I would never get what I wanted.