Alice Hoffman Quotes

I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave. I suppose that now, I must become more than either.

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.

But I miss the woman I was, even as I learn to accept the new creature I’ve become.

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.

And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.

i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.

I usually congratulate people when they tell me, "I don't know who I am anymore".

I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

I was actually looking for answers where I kept asking myself - what am I doing?

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

I have changed so much, post-'Raaz,' as a person.

I'm passionate about transformation.

I stare at the mirror as I try to remember who I am and who I am not.

To honor life, we must be willing to grow through what we don't know yet, and outgrow what we know no longer fits us. We must be willing to give in to the process, moment by moment, realizing a new plot may be unfolding.

Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.

I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of... What's the use of telling someone that I am changing? If I'm changing, I am no longer who I was; and if I am something else, it's obvious that I have no acquaintances. And I can't possibly write to strangers.