“ From the time I could read, I found solace in my father's library...At the ages of ten and eleven and twelve I would have preferred to remain in the library... Alice Hoffman
“ It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too. 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
“ 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… Alice Hoffman
“ She allowed me to understand I'd done everything I could for her, and that I, and everyone who loved her, had to step away and go on living.Now I know what she wanted from me on the day she told me sh… Alice Hoffman
“ Shelby watched the books burn. She wonders if words are pouring down on other people's houses,sad words, like beast and mourn and sorrow and mother. Alice Hoffman
“ He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say. Alice Hoffman
“ 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… Alice Hoffman
“ I could hardly get a boy to look at me. All right, they'd look, they'd even take me out, but no one asked for a second date. I was too nasty, a real wise guy, and all the boys could tell what my rotte… Alice Hoffman
“ Helplessness and anger make for predictable behavior: Children are certain to shove each other and pull hair, teenagers will call each other names and cry, and grown women who are sisters will say wor… Alice Hoffman
“ Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms. Alice Hoffman
“ But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind. Alice Hoffman
“ She knew it the way people say they know they are about to be hit by lightning, yet remain powerless to run, unable to avoid their fate. She panicked, as anyone might have when disparate parts of her… Alice Hoffman
“ 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
“ My mother was teaching me that the inside of something was not necessarily its outside. Always look carefully, she told me. Look with more than your eyes. Alice Hoffman
“ 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
