In his writings, Dr. Burke-Owens proposed a theory of personality that placed nature over nurture, stating there was no way to change a child’s core personality. Not only was the brain hardwired, he proposed, but the soul was as well. There was no way to escape one’s personal genetics, despite a healthy environment, and this did not bode well for Frances and Bridget and Vincent.

— Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Quotes

This is what happens when you stay in one place for thirteen years,” Anne says. “First you own things. Then they own you.

— Alice Hoffman

It was as if when he had been stolen as an infant, he had come back as a changeling, as if someone had reached inside him and grabbed his heart to keep under lock and key.

— Alice Hoffman

Always love someone who will love you back.

— Alice Hoffman

It was a clear, bright, beautiful day, the air tinged with salt, the climbing roses blooming. The graveyard was filled with sunlight.

— Alice Hoffman

Sisters were sisters, after all, and if they didn’t stick up for each other, who would?

— Alice Hoffman

Will her husband love her?” “Would you want love you had to buy?” Isabelle asked.

— Alice Hoffman

In Massachusetts everything had a faint green aroma, a combination of cucumber, wisteria, dogwood, and peppermint.

— Alice Hoffman

I don’t make all the decisions, you know,” Isabelle managed to say. “I just do the best I can to face what life brings. That’s the secret, you know. That’s the way you change your fate.

— Alice Hoffman

You’re better than this,” Franny said. “Am I? I see things I can’t change, Franny. When I drink I stop the visions. It was in pieces but it’s coming together in one picture. And lately, what I’ve been seeing is an accident. A bad one. And soon.

— Alice Hoffman

Elinor would have surely ignored them, such was her habit and her inclination, even though she knew whenever someone ignored what hurt her most, she’d wind up in grave circumstances. Ignore love, she now understood, and a person might bleed forever, even if no one could tell.

— Alice Hoffman

Shouldn’t he have waited?” “Not when you told him to go away. People believe you when you say things like that. You never told him you loved him, did you?

— Alice Hoffman

For women who wanted a child, mistletoe was to be strung over their beds. If that had no effect, they must tie nine knots in a strong rope, then burn the rope and eat the ashes and soon enough they would conceive.

— Alice Hoffman

Blue must be worn for protection.

— Alice Hoffman

It was too exciting a time to be tied down to school.

— Alice Hoffman

Remind customers they must be careful what they wish for, Isabelle instructed. What’s done cannot be undone. What’s set into motion takes on a life of its own.

— Alice Hoffman

Moonstones were useful in connecting with the living, topaz to contact the dead. Copper, sacred to Venus, will call a man to you, and black tourmaline will eliminate jealousy.

— Alice Hoffman

Every time a new house was built, a bucket of peach stones would be found, and even children on their way to school knew that finding one meant luck, whatever the outcome: love forgotten, love gone wrong, love despite all odds, love ever after, love after all this time.

— Alice Hoffman

When it came to love, you must always be careful. If you dropped something belonging to the man you loved into a candle flame, then added pine needles and marigold flowers, he would arrive on your doorstep by morning, so you would do well to be certain you wanted him there.

— Alice Hoffman

The most basic and reliable love potion was made from anise, rosemary, honey, and cloves boiled for nine hours on the back burner of the old stove.

— Alice Hoffman

A glass breaking on its own portended death.

— Alice Hoffman
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