More Quotes by Alice Hoffman
Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.
Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.
Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.
Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out, and a lie is always a lie, no matter how prettily told. Some doors, once they're opened, can never be closed again, just as some trust, once it's been lost, can never be won back.
Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.
Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.
No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
Books may well be the only true magic.
