Alice Hoffman Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

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

2. Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going. Practical Magic

3. 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. Incantation

4. 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 life were about to crash into each other, certain to leave a path of anguish and debris. It was true that devotion could be lost as quickly as it was found, which was why some people insisted that love letters be written in ink. How easy it was for even the sweetest words to evaporate, only to be rewritten as impulse and infatuation might dictate. How unfortunate that love could not be taught or trained, like a seal or a dog. Instead it was a wolf on the prowl, with a mind of its own, and it made its own way, undeterred by the damage done. Love like this could turn honest people into liars and cheats, as it now did… The River King

5. 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. The Dovekeepers

6. The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day. The Museum of Extraordinary Things

7. 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. Practical Magic

8. Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs. Practical Magic

9. When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure. Here on Earth

10. 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 words so cruel that each syllable will take on the form of a snake, although such a snake often circles in on itself to eat its own tail once the words are said aloud. Practical Magic

11. 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 rotten disposition was. Deep down, I wanted a commitment with a capital C. To get anywhere with me, a boy would have to sign his undying loyalty with his own blood. Local Girls

12. Life is a mystery, and it should be so, for the sorrow that accompanies being human and the choices one will have to make are a burden, too heavy for most to know before their time comes. The Rules of Magic

13. Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure. Practical Magic

14. Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms. Local Girls