Alice Hoffman Quotes

With a lot of things in life, it's hard to do the right thing.

Ethan thought he was doing the right thing. He knew it was crazy. And he didn’t want to go, but he had to anyway. Ethan was like that. Even if he was dead. He saved the world, but he shattered mine. What now?

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.

I have had to tell my son, my parents, my friends that I used steroids. It's been very hard. It's been very difficult.

We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do.

We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

If you really want to help your country, sometimes you have to make uncomfortable decisions.

It's hard to regret making the choice that you think is right.

Evil has always been here since the world began. Good is what is difficult. It is a work of every day.

I know I've done the right thing but I couldn't feel worse about it, and I suppose that is part of what it is to lead.

There is some consensus: There's obsession, there's never satiety, and there's always remorse. For me, the big thing is that you're always breaking a promise - for example, you promise yourself you're just going to have coffee with a man, then before you know it, you're in bed together.

He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.

You just have to choose which wrong choice feels the least wrong.

You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.

The path of duty I clearly trace, / I stand with conscience face to face, / And all her pleas allow; / Calling and crying the while for grace, - / 'Some other time, and some other place; / Oh, not to-day; not now!

I had a little sorrow, Born of a little sin.

Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse and regret cannot compensate for sin....though sins can be forgiven immediately - the consequences can last a lifetime

I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.

That strange, twisted, torn love. That conflict between what your heart knows is right and what your mind is told is right.

Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an alarm bell, whose melancholy sounds may reverberate through eternity. Like the sudden, sharp cry of "Fire!" under our windows by night, it should rouse us to instantaneous action, and brace every muscle to its highest tension.

Sacrifice is never easy or it is no true sacrifice. - Stannis

It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle!