The Book of Magic Quotes

“Some stories begin at the beginning and others begin at the end, but all the best stories begin in a library.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“Read as many books as you can. Choose courage over caution. Take time to visit libraries. Look for light in the darkness. Have faith in yourself. Know that love is what matters most.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“Once, a long time ago, before we knew who we were, we thought we wanted to be like everyone else. How lucky to be exactly who we were.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“Words were everything, stories were more powerful than any weapon, books changed lives.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“What you wind up regretting aren’t the things you do, it’s what you don’t do that you will never forgive yourself for.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“Choose courage over caution. Take time to visit libraries. Look for light in the darkness. Have faith in yourself. Know that love is what matters”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“When you have a sister, someone knows the story of who you were and who you would always be.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“Life all happened so quickly; people tell you it will, but you won’t believe it until it happens to you. Cry all you want, being young will slip through your hands and you will be left standing there, you who were once so young, not recognizing yourself or your life.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“Seeing has little to do with opening your eyes; it’s what you feel inside that counts, it’s what you know without anyone telling you.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“you must be yourself no matter what; anything else was a lie, and a denial of who you were would always cause grief. What you put out into the world came back to you threefold. If you could not accept yourself, you would be reviled and cast out, adrift in the world.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“This is what love was, you stayed when you wanted to run away. You held on when you knew you had no choice but to let go.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“Time is out there. Everything that ever happened is still happening. For instance, if I took your hand in mine.” Which he did as he was speaking. “It would be happening for hundreds of years.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“Who can you trust if not your sister? Who knows your story better than she? If you saw one Owens sister at the grocery, the other would be right beside her. If one was working in the garden, making certain the rows of herbs were weeded, her sister would be there as well, carrying a basket to collect the dandelion greens.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“How lucky they’d been to be raised by women who taught them what was most important in this world. Read as many books as you can. Choose courage over caution. Take time to visit libraries. Look for light in the darkness. Have faith in yourself. Know that love is what matters most.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“Read as many books as you can. Choose courage over caution. Take time to visit libraries. Look for light in the darkness.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“You could live a little or you could live a lot.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“Everything worthwhile is dangerous.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“Women here in Massachusetts had been drowned and beaten and hanged, especially if they were found to have access to books other than the Bible, for the Puritans had been convinced that they alone had the ear of God.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“He felt like an addict, out of control, unable to stop himself from taking what he imagined he was entitled to, not yet understanding that no one is entitled to anything other than his freedom and the choices he makes.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“Now Franny understood that you must be yourself no matter what; anything else was a lie, and a denial of who you were would always cause grief. What you put out into the world came back to you threefold. If you could not accept yourself, you would be reviled and cast out, adrift in the world.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“Where there were lilacs there would be luck.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“Life was like a book, Jet thought, but one you would never finish. You would never know how people would wind up; the good often suffered and the wicked prospered and there was no explanation for the way in which fate was meted out as there was in novels.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“There are some things you have only once in a lifetime, and then only if you’re lucky.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“Language was everything. Trust was for fools. Love came and went. Words could be stolen.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“You didn't have to be cursed in love to know that when you loved someone you were open to great loss.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“a quotation that had been her favorite, written by the poet she most admired. Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality. Unbeknownst to Jet, Franny had added another line beneath her sister’s name. Beloved by all.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“Sally had returned to school for her degree in library science at Simmons University, and now, at the age of forty-four, she was the director of the Owens Library.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“Be a forthright woman and all hell could break loose.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“How lucky to have a sister”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“You could surprise yourself with what emerged from inside yourself.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic