Alice Hoffman Quotes: 12

• Books may well be the only true magic.

• Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.

  Practical Magic

• 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

• When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.

  The Story Sisters

• ...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go."From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102.

  Local Girls

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

  Here on Earth

• 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

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

  Practical Magic

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

  Practical Magic

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

  Local Girls

• Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.

  Blackbird House

• He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

  Blackbird House