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
instant eternal
We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.
would-be world way
Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.
song falling-in-love stars
Young Sally Owens: He will hear my call a mile away. He will whistle my favorite song. He can ride a pony backwards. Young Gillian Owens: What are you doing? Young Sally Owens: Summoning up a true love spell called Amas Veritas. He can flip pancakes in the air. He'll be marvelously kind. And his favorite shape will be a star. And he'll have one green eye and one blue. Young Gillian Owens: Thought you never wanted to fall in love. Young Sally Owens: That's the point. The guy I dreamed of doesn't exist. And if he doesn't exist I'll never die of a broken heart.
eye long her-eyes
He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.
men secret stories
Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.
summer stars thinking
Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.
wise loyalty real
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.
kissing years waiting
Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss, the forgiveness. It came after you, it escaped you, it was invisible, it was everything.
childhood wish behinds
That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
lying distance problem
It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.
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.
thinking want what-you-want
Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.
attention world understood
If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.
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.