Quotes by Alice Hoffman

Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.

Fear is contagious. It doubles within minutes; it grows in places where there’s never been any doubt before.

The past stays with a man, sticking to his heels like glue. Invisible and heartbreaking and unavoidable, threaded to the future, just as surely as day is sewn to night.

You can't change what's means to be. 

He had a way of taking your hand, which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go.
 

This was what it was. The ruin of it. The depth of it. Have it once and you can have it again. That’s the riddle. That’s the truth.

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.

Your mistake was walking down the road where I was. My mistake was everything else.

- Quotes by Alice Hoffman