Alice Hoffman Quotes

My grandfather was a healer, and he used matches often. Once, he burnt a wart off my finger and then rubbed the ash deep into it, and it never did come back. When he worked at a factory, people would line up next to his truck to be healed. He died before he could teach us any of his secrets.

One of my superstitions is I'm not allowed to talk about them.

Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black cats on the street.

Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

Superstition is the spleen of the soul.

Not the man in the moon, not the groaning-board, not the speaking of friar Bacon's brazen- head, not the inspiration of mother Shipton, or the miracles of Dr. Faustus, things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.

If you're lucky enough to fall in love, that's one thing. Otherwise all that was ever truly beautiful to me was boyhood. It's the meal we sup on for the rest of our lives. Love puts the icing on life. But if you don't find it...you must call on your childhood memories over and over till you do.

Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.

Do you think a man is the only creature with whom one may fall in love?

Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself.

My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.

Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.

Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love.

We fall in love forever many times, and many times we die.

Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.

They say that falling in love is wonderful, it's wonderful, so they say.

I was thinking about this girl you love so much," she said, "And this place I love so much. And how that happens. How you can just fall into it.

Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over.

In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure to kill the evil spirits who are pursuing you, and all the rest of your life you will have good luck.

It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.

My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.