Alice Hoffman Quotes

People's most prized possessions carry deeply symbolic and emotional significance.

Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.

a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

I love the idea that someone I like would have a piece of mine in their house and have a relationship with it.

I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

This is really showing me what certain movies mean to people.

Liverpool will always be special for me: my daughter was born here.

Minneapolis has always been a very special place for me.

Miami will always be special to me.

Chennai is a lucky charm for me and I hold the city very close to my heart.

For me, Minneapolis will always have a special place in my heart.

Kaiserslautern is and has always been a matter very close to my heart.

What shop did this book come from? she asked. Her father was looking worried at the cooker. He always got rice wrong. I don't know, Brooksie, he said, I don't remember. That was unimaginable, not remembering where a book has come from! and where it was bought from! That was part of the whole history, the whole point, of any book that you owned! And when you picked it up later in the house at home, you knew, you just knew by looking and having it in your hand, where it came from and where you got it and when and why you'd decided to buy it.

It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return.

When you love something, you get to know it. Then you feel the ownership and if it changes, you only love it as far as you know it because then you're like, "What is this?"

That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.

Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.

Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself

He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time and was reduced to staring at the handwriting itself. She had made her g's the same way he did : he searched through the letter for every one of them, and each felt like a friendly little wave glimpsed from behind a veil. The letter was an incredible treasure, proof that Lily Potter had lived, really lived, that her warm hand had once moved across this parchment, tracing ink into these letters, these words, words about him, Harry, her son.

I suppose books mean more than people to me.

It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

Be careful..you're all I've got left, to remind me who I really am.