The World That We Knew Quotes

“If you are loved, you never lose the person who loved you. You carry them with you all your life.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“When you were young you were afraid of ghosts, and when you were aged you called them to you.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“If you do not believe in evil, you are doomed to live in a world you will never understand.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“That was how evil spoke. It made its own corrupt sense; it swore that the good were evil, and that evil had come to save mankind”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“Your grief won't go away; it's not a door you can close,or a book you can put back on the shelf,or a kiss you can give back once it's given. This is the way the world is now. Keep the worst things to yourself, like a bone in your throat.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“He realized how little he knew of this world, but he knew this: If you could love someone, you possessed a soul.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“It was easy to lie to people who still believed in the truth.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“That was how evil spoke. It made its own corrupt sense; it swore that the good were evil, and that evil had come to save mankind. It brought up ancient fears and scattered them on the street like pearls.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“When you have lost your mother you have lost the world.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“We must do as we're told," Ava reminded her. "We will honor your mother and follow her instructions."

"Because she is your maker?" Lea asked, her heart breaking.

Ava shook her head. "Because she is yours.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“He wondered why it was only when you were at the end of your life that it was possible to view it with honesty and truth.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“Once upon a time something happened that you never could have imagined, a spell was broken, a girl was saved, a rose grew out of a tooth buried deep in the ground, love was everywhere, and people who had been taken away continued to walk with you, in dreams and in the waking world.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“The fields were rifle with clouds of Queen Anne's lace, which would make a billowy wreath. Her father had always said there people who saw Queen Anne's lace as a weed, and those who considered it a flower, and he belonged to the latter group.
If you think it's beautiful it is, he had told her.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“When you are a wolf, no place is safe, no one can be trusted. Unless they are what you are. Hunted.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“People said love was the antidote to hate, that it could mend what was most broken, and give hope in the most hopeless of times.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“It was believed that all creation came from thought, language, and mathematics.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“In Berlin evil came to them slowly and then all at once.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“Trust no one, make your own future, love with all your heart.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“TWENTY”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“If you are loved, you never lose the person who loved you. You carry them with you all your”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“When you have lost your mother you have lost the world. You can sit in the garden and see nothing at all, not the woman on the garden bench watching over you, not the boy who refuses to leave you, even when you tell him to go. Your grief won’t go away; it’s not a door you can close, or a book you can put back on the shelf, or a kiss you can give back once it is given. This is the way the world is now. Keep the worst things to yourself, like a bone in your throat.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“Did they not know that at the conference in Evian as far back as 1938, thirty-two countries in the League of Nations had voted not to help Jewish refugees fleeing Germany? Even America had refused to accept 20,000 endangered refugee children.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“If you are loved, you never lose the person who loved you. You carry them with you all your life. They were with her as she ran.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“The most she dared to wish for now was to live long enough to become a woman.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“That was how evil spoke. It made its own corrupt sense; it swore that the good were evil, and that evil had come to save mankind. It brought up ancient fears and scattered them on the street like pearls. To fight what was wicked, magic and faith were needed. This was what one must turn to when there was no other option.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“It was the middle of winter, when the whole world was white, and a wolf and her and her cub had been chased as far as they could go. There was no escape,at least not for both. When the mother wolf ran to attach the hunters, all they saw were her claws and her fangs.While they shot her, the cub disappeared into the snow. That was the moment when it's coat turned from black to white so that is was forever after invisible to the hunters.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“that at the conference in Evian as far back as 1938, thirty-two countries in the League of Nations had voted not to help Jewish refugees fleeing Germany? Even America had refused to accept 20,000 endangered refugee children.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“It was easy to lie to people who still believed in the truth. Only days afterward, each person who had filled out this list was deported to a death camp.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“She had a solemn expression as she asked if, in his opinion as a doctor, he had come to the conclusion that all living things had souls. ......

If a soul was formed by meaning and purpose, did not every blade of grass have a soul, for each had a purpose.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“What color is the sky?” he asked her as they walked on, past the train station, past the town hall, past the shuttered shops. She had slowed her pace to suit his limp. “Black,” she answered with certainty. “With stars.” “So people say,” Weitz said sadly. Dozens of colors were there, a hundred perhaps for those who could see underneath the darkness. “You should look more carefully.” When they reached the house, Weitz stood outside for a while longer before he went in to paint the real colors of the night.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew