Magic Lessons Quotes

“This is how you begin in this world. These are the lessons to be learned. Drink chamomile tea to calm the spirit. Feed a cold and starve a fever. Read as many books as you can. Always choose courage. Never watch another woman burn. Know that love is the only answer.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“When you fall in love like that, time doesn’t matter. This was the secret he told Maria, the last words he ever said. What belonged to you once, will always belong to you. Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another’s heart in your hand.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“Always love someone who will love you back.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“Read as many books as you can. Always choose courage,”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“Never watch another woman burn”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“It was true, when you saved someone, they belonged to you in some small way, but it was also true that you belonged to them. They would stay with you and enter into your dreams and your thoughts, as you would enter into theirs.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“Some people grow weak when they are victimized, others grow stronger, and still others combine those two attributes to become dangerous,”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“But what you give up you can learn to live without, even if it causes you heartbreak at the start.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“There are none who can fight as fiercely as a mother and a daughter, and none who can forgive more completely.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“What you send out comes back to you threefold. What you give to the world returns in kind. Blood begets blood.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“You never know what you want or need until you are old, for old age is a mystery that is impossible to unwind until you step into its maze.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“It was always best to step into the future while it was still waiting for you.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another's heart in your hand.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“For a man tells you who he is the instant you meet him, all you have to do is listen.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“No one knows where time goes, all the same it disappears.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“Talent is something you’re born with. It’s a gift and a curse, and it’s often cause for jealousy from those who are without it.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“Fate is what you make of it ... You can make the best of it, or you can let it make the best of you.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“Tell a witch to go, and she’ll plant her feet on the ground and stay exactly where she is. Instead of doing as she’s told, she’ll take a knife to her arm and let her blood drip onto the ground, and in that way she will claim the earth for herself and for her daughters and for all the daughters who follow her. It is the future she’s claiming, the right to be a woman who can do as she pleases.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“Desire, if handled incorrectly, could become a curse.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“Know what you want, and be sure of it, for regret gives birth to more regret and nothing more.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“These are the lessons to be learned. Drink chamomile tea to calm the spirit. Feed a cold and starve a fever. Read as many books as you can. Always choose courage. Never watch another woman burn. Know that love is the only answer.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“You feel your heart and bones and blood. You wait for him like a bird in a cage.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“What is broken can also be mended.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“Love was the thing that tore you apart; it made you believe the lies you were told, obvious as they might be. It was nearly impossible to see your own fate while it was happening to you. It was only after, when what’s done had been done, that one’s vision cleared.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“For some, witchery was a choice, but not for them.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“Some creatures do not care how polite a person might be, they will hurt you for no reason, and then all you can do is heal yourself with whatever ingredients are necessary”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“Likely it was true that the flaws you saw in other women you didn't notice in yourself.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“First they burned the books, then the people who wrote them, then those who read them.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“Finding your soul mate is like coming home to a house where everything is familiar. You can walk in the dark and know where everything is.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“A familiar is such a creature, an animal or bird that sees inside to the very soul of its human companion, and knows what others might not.
What fears there might be, and what joys, for it shares the emotions of its human partner.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons