Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffmanis an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth16 March 1952
CountryUnited States of America
stupid people flawed
He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.
sweet blue evening
The evening had turned sweet and blue.
cutting blood tongue
Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.
stones woods want
I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.
house way planning
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 least, that's the way we're planning it.
judging arms certain
Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.
stars sky salt
He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.
senior stars real
In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars.
regret believe people
Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.
lying distance problem
It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.
childhood wish behinds
That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
love-is
Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.
one-day tears necks
Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.
grief cold speak
My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.