No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time. Alice Hoffman More Quotes by Alice Hoffman More Quotes From Alice Hoffman When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure. Alice Hoffman weather love two 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 butterfly men way 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 rivals fairy-tale emotional When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their way into attics. At night,the dark is blue and bluer still, as sapphire of night. Alice Hoffman husband dark night There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can. Alice Hoffman falling-in-love garden rose Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head Alice Hoffman forget-everything writing book Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back. Alice Hoffman tongue wish facts She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all. Alice Hoffman twelve felt The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world. Alice Hoffman purple stars sky It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too. Alice Hoffman feeling-beautiful contagious beautiful No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written Alice Hoffman know-how novel writing Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away. Alice Hoffman riddle giving Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working. Alice Hoffman mom mother children You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies. Alice Hoffman butterfly dream sleep Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws. Alice Hoffman fairy-tale teeth writing 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 twenties would-be mind They weren't true stories; they were better than that. Alice Hoffman true-story stories They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined. Alice Hoffman notebook eye blue Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller. Alice Hoffman real reading art I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream. Alice Hoffman dream
