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
chef kinds literature paul reading southern thinking
I'm thinking of reading something by chef Paul Prudhomme. It's a reading of all kinds of Southern literature.
burden given knows
Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.
done sometimes feels
Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
grandmother thinking sky
My grandmother told me once that when you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well, but that's not the way things turn out in the end. Eventually, you pick yourself up and look out the window, and once you do you see everything that was there before the world ended is out there still. There are the same apple trees and the same songbirds, and over our heads, the very same sky that shines like heaven, so far above us we can never hope to reach such heights.
girl aunt magic
My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances
love weather two
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
walks
When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
husband dark night
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.
running mean sometimes
Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
dream people busy
I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.
character writing magic
When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
falling-in-love garden rose
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.
taken glory given
But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
mind would-be four
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.