Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think...
ALICE HOFFMAN Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappea...
ALICE HOFFMAN Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always hel...
ALICE HOFFMAN Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by.
ALICE HOFFMAN Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishin...
ALICE HOFFMAN All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the ...
ALICE HOFFMAN After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading i...
ALICE HOFFMAN We're helping the survivors of Katrina, having our voices heard, and it's a great way to take back S...
ALICE HOFFMAN I'm thinking of reading something by chef Paul Prudhomme. It's a reading of all kinds of Southern li...
ALICE HOFFMAN Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
ALICE HOFFMAN There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over...
ALICE HOFFMAN Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But...
ALICE HOFFMAN Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I beli...
ALICE HOFFMAN Books may well be the only true magic.
ALICE HOFFMAN Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But...
ALICE HOFFMAN I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.
ALICE HOFFMAN Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be t...
ALICE HOFFMAN I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic....
ALICE HOFFMAN The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding al...
ALICE HOFFMAN The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a h...
ALICE HOFFMAN As for Gus, he had come to Haddan with no appreciation for the human race and no expectations of his...
ALICE HOFFMAN ...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go."
ALICE HOFFMAN I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we c...
ALICE HOFFMAN When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be su...
ALICE HOFFMAN People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it...
ALICE HOFFMAN When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
ALICE HOFFMAN I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are...
ALICE HOFFMAN All the same, there were some things they needed to learn. Do not drink milk after a thunderstorm, f...
ALICE HOFFMAN The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark a...
ALICE HOFFMAN Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
ALICE HOFFMAN ...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold sme...
ALICE HOFFMAN In a novel, you'll find yourself in a world of possibilities. You'll find shelter there.
ALICE HOFFMAN The wickedness of the world was a part of creation, I knew this, and the Angel of Death had been cre...
ALICE HOFFMAN She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like...
ALICE HOFFMAN They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eye...
ALICE HOFFMAN Don't cry while you are reading the book wait until you are done reading it.
ALICE HOFFMAN Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
ALICE HOFFMAN ... but where do we go?"(Elinor)
"I used to think there was a plan, a rough plan, but a plan al...
ALICE HOFFMAN She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would s...
ALICE HOFFMAN Time wasn't the same anymore. Doors were slamming shut before we even knew they'd been opened. Good ...
ALICE HOFFMAN Helplessness and anger make for predictable behavior: Children are certain to shove each other and p...
ALICE HOFFMAN Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publi...
ALICE HOFFMAN Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.
ALICE HOFFMAN Before she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on the countertop, then ho...
ALICE HOFFMAN Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
ALICE HOFFMAN They weren't true stories; they were better than that.
ALICE HOFFMAN He had appeared beside her because she had wanted him to. She had called him to her, and was calling...
ALICE HOFFMAN My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rat...
ALICE HOFFMAN The only way to understand a river is to jump into it.
ALICE HOFFMAN Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up...
ALICE HOFFMAN Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
ALICE HOFFMAN It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it ...
ALICE HOFFMAN If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur ...
ALICE HOFFMAN Those boys at the counter are too dreamy and young to do anything but drool as they watch Gillian. A...
ALICE HOFFMAN Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to c...
ALICE HOFFMAN He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shake...
ALICE HOFFMAN Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?
ALICE HOFFMAN Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I’d always felt safer wi...
ALICE HOFFMAN Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean...
ALICE HOFFMAN You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.
ALICE HOFFMAN Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They bu...
ALICE HOFFMAN I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.
ALICE HOFFMAN Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the ...
ALICE HOFFMAN People expected certain things of me: assistance, silence, comfort. They had no idea who I was.
ALICE HOFFMAN You want to know what love is?
It's the thing that ruins you.
ALICE HOFFMAN I thought he knew me better than most...Then one nigh Jack brought me flowers, a handful of fading d...
ALICE HOFFMAN What if your brother is dying and you can't stop it. What do you do?"
...
"You help him fi...
ALICE HOFFMAN I knew the power of a single wish, after all. Invisible and inevitable, like a butterfly that beats ...
ALICE HOFFMAN the logic of fairy tales was that there was no logic: bad things happened to the innocent, children ...
ALICE HOFFMAN Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn’t that the point? Happily ever after doesn’t ...
ALICE HOFFMAN How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articu...
ALICE HOFFMAN This was what it was. The ruin of it. The depth of it. Have it once and you can have it again. That�...
ALICE HOFFMAN You want to know what love is? Its the thing that ruins you.
ALICE HOFFMAN At night I told myself a story, wordless, inside my head, one I liked far better than those in my bo...
ALICE HOFFMAN What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house o...
ALICE HOFFMAN Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--...
ALICE HOFFMAN How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was w...
ALICE HOFFMAN At the heart of his paper was the notion that fairy tales relieved us of our need for order and allo...
ALICE HOFFMAN It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone ...
ALICE HOFFMAN I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was ...
ALICE HOFFMAN Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn’t...
ALICE HOFFMAN If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better no...
ALICE HOFFMAN What's the difference between love and obsession? Didn't both make you stay up all night, wandering ...
ALICE HOFFMAN There seemed to be handfuls of stars tossed right above the rooftops in Haddan, keeping the town sti...
ALICE HOFFMAN Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But...
ALICE HOFFMAN ...early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills.
ALICE HOFFMAN I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more tha...
ALICE HOFFMAN Children would beg for a peppermint drop each time he walked into town, and they'd follow behind, as...
ALICE HOFFMAN That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it c...
ALICE HOFFMAN Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.
ALICE HOFFMAN Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.
ALICE HOFFMAN (INCANTATION) When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
ALICE HOFFMAN (INCANTATION) Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
ALICE HOFFMAN (LOCAL GIRLS) The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
ALICE HOFFMAN (THE FORTELLING) My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rat...
ALICE HOFFMAN (PRACTICAL MAGIC) Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
ALICE HOFFMAN (PRACTICAL MAGIC) Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My fir...
CRISS ANGEL My first ever tour of my music was in the Netherlands. I didn't really have a grace period to gr...
ANGEL OLSEN Oprah is signed on to help, and a lot of celebrity friends have agreed to help me raise money for Ma...
CRISS ANGEL Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a p...
CRISS ANGEL You should welcome getting older in golf. With greater knowledge of your swing, you, too, can keep i...
ANGEL CABRERA I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can'...
ANGEL HAZE I would be to afraid to be caught downloading music. I may consider it, if I thought I could get awa...
ANGEL SANCHEZ Ninety-five percent of the people ? they're workers. They pay taxes like everybody else.
ANGEL SANCHEZ This is a big, big noise. They are using us to stay in office.
ANGEL SANCHEZ A lot of them are simply upset and some are simply happy to see water, to take a shower.
ANGEL SANCHEZ It breaks my heart when I see the need.
ANGEL SANCHEZ I said, 'I'll make it up to you.' She understands. She knows that I'm helping, doing something good.
ANGEL SANCHEZ We could not have done what we did for four years without that kind of support.
ANGEL RIVERA His friends grabbed him and started shaking him and tried to wake him up. They said, 'Wake up! Wake ...
ANGEL RIVERA The forecasts, at least what we can see in the next month or two...do not allow us to foresee a situ...
ANGEL RIVERA It's a unique phenomenon because hurricanes don't normally form at that latitude and with those temp...
ANGEL RIVERA First, [TV executives realized] the Latino population was growing and has more spending power, ... N...
ANGEL RIVERA He ran the light, he was in a hurry, ... He took the turn too fast. He didn't have no chance to get ...
ANGEL RIVERA It's an awesome opportunity, ... I mean, for a guy who's not from around here to have a very good ch...
ANGEL RIVERA I really do believe the conservatives are winning the battle.
ANGEL RIVERA The models we have ... (suggest) that the rains in autumn will be normal or even less than normal,
ANGEL RIVERA The main reason Bush should be re-elected is because he has made a commitment to national security l...
ANGEL RIVERA I think the government is once again trying to create terror through our community.
ANGEL RAICH I know we're going to win, I feel pretty good about the 9th Circuit.
ANGEL RAICH I tried all the drugs, nothing was working. My daughter asked 'Why can't you do the things other mom...
ANGEL RAICH This war is far from over. I'm not going to give up. I'm going to keep fighting until there's no fig...
ANGEL RAICH This war is far from over. I'm not going to give up. I'm going to keep fighting until there's no fig...
ANGEL RAICH It's two outs, bottom of the ninth -- he's gotta come through. He has to come up with something defi...
ANGEL MATA If they are having a hard time getting paid by their customers, what does that say about the rest of...
ANGEL MATA The president only has so much influence over the economy and legislation.
ANGEL MATA The market's digesting the recent gains. Investors want to see what the market's going to do. Absent...
ANGEL MATA We're seeing better earnings, and that's making people more enthusiastic. But programs have been ske...
ANGEL MATA There are a lot of mixed signals right now. Some of the negative tone has to do with the fact that w...
ANGEL MATA If it's down a lot (people are investing in it). Everyone says this can't be sustained, but that's w...
ANGEL MATA Historically, you can't have an up market without banks leading the way. Today it's an earnings rall...
ANGEL MATA There are a lot of bad things happening right now in the Bush White House. Obviously, leadership at ...
ANGEL MATA The banks [didn't] do well after the dismal news from Bank of New York. Significant weakness in that...
ANGEL MATA The doctor told us he could be legally blind never drive, never see the biggest letters on the eye c...
ANGEL LINDSEY Electronics? He can do anything.
ANGEL LINDSEY Then he was just everywhere.
ANGEL LINDSEY He had always stayed in one place, right there in front of the fireplace, just playing. That first d...
ANGEL LINDSEY The doctor told us he could be legally blind — never drive, never s...
ANGEL LINDSEY We'd never heard of that before.
ANGEL LINDSEY It will be good, ... I've got a chance to ride a good filly (Indian Vale) and be able to encourage p...
ANGEL JR. If Indian Vale is as good as we think she is and she runs her race, she'll make me look good, ... If...
ANGEL JR. No, that's good enough for me.
ANGEL JR. Since he ran in the Dwyer he started getting better and better,
ANGEL JR. I love this horse, and I really love him in the Travers. He's fit and sound and eager. He's like a f...
ANGEL JR. She was struggling to stay there, ... She was aggressive for the first quarter of a mile. She's a be...
ANGEL JR. It would have been better if I had won, ... But it's nice to know that people still love the horses ...
ANGEL JR. He's a very nice horse, very well behaved, ... I'm proud to get on a horse like that. He's probably ...
ANGEL JR. When he's good, I call him 'Al-ley,' like Muhammad Ali,
ANGEL JR. Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.
ANGEL JR. He's in a lot of pain, but he's more comfortable then he was last night.
ANGEL JR It's beautiful here. I am very impressed. It's like a dream. I've never seen stuff like this before....
ANGEL JR I'm not trying to prove a point. I'm not trying to prove anything. I just want to get it out of my s...
ANGEL JR She was struggling to stay there. She was aggressive for the first quarter of a mile. She's a better...
ANGEL JR It will be good. I've got a chance to ride a good filly (Indian Vale) and be able to encourage peopl...
ANGEL JR He's been the most dominant rider the last 15 years, and one of the most accomplished riders ever. H...
ANGEL JR It would have been better if I had won. But it's nice to know that people still love the horses and ...
ANGEL JR Since he ran in the Dwyer he started getting better and better. When he won the Jim Dandy, he was do...
ANGEL JR If Indian Vale is as good as we think she is and she runs her race, she'll make me look good. If I m...
ANGEL JR He's a very nice horse, very well behaved. I'm proud to get on a horse like that. He's probably one ...
ANGEL JR So far I don't have any special feelings. I just want to be there and live the moment.
ANGEL GUZMAN Now that I have this opportunity to show them that I can pitch, I have to just go out there and make...
ANGEL GUZMAN I wasn't throwing good enough there.
ANGEL GUZMAN Let's see what happens. Everything is on standby. It's about showing them we are ready -- no matter ...
ANGEL GUZMAN No matter who it's going to be, I know they'll make the right decision. Sean Marshall is doing a gre...
ANGEL GUZMAN He's having a lot of fun. He said they have a pretty good chemistry in the clubhouse and all they ta...
ANGEL GUZMAN I want to work hard and let them know I'm ready. I want to be in the big leagues, hopefully.
ANGEL GUZMAN I don't stop to think about [there being a new opportunity]. I know I have a chance to make the team...
ANGEL GUZMAN He's one of the aces on the team. When this happened, I felt bad. Nothing changes for me; it's going...
ANGEL GUZMAN At least it had a good ending. I think I finished pretty good.
ANGEL GUZMAN Everybody knew they were there, but they didn't talk to us and we didn't talk to them. I always saw ...
ANGEL GONZALEZ We are learning to multiply three-digit numbers.
ANGEL GONZALEZ It's helped bring us together, bring us closer as a family. It's actually helping bring us closer as...
ANGEL GONZALEZ My kids love it. It was actually them that got me into it. They started coming around and picking up...
ANGEL GONZALEZ I knew it was bad. But I wasn't scared.
ANGEL GONZALEZ It's kind of strange, because I've been with them for about 29 years, and I've never filed a claim f...
ANGEL GONZALEZ I admire him for his work, but I know he's going to lose. I guarantee he's not going to win. But it'...
ANGEL GONZALEZ The flooding hasn't started yet, but we are already prepared.
ANGEL GONZALEZ Everybody knew they were there, but they didn't talk to us and we didn't talk to them.
ANGEL GONZALEZ (The House bill) is truly a violation of people's civil rights. People just want to be united with t...
ANGEL FUENTES We just want to send a clear message to our Congress and Senate that they really have to rework the ...
ANGEL FUENTES You know you have our support
ANGEL FUENTES No one from the administration has made such an effort
ANGEL FUENTES We have really put in a lot of our time on this,
ANGEL FUENTES But it's not a reflection on City Council, ... We have to put good people to work for the court. It'...
ANGEL FUENTES I'm not an actress. I just have to be myself.
ANGEL CARTER I don't want to be a Spice Girl!
ANGEL CARTER I love long hair. A year ago I was thinking about maybe cutting it, but I don't know. I never wanna ...
ANGEL CARTER Just like i said before, I am not into the acting or instrumental like the others, and I have NO ide...
ANGEL CARTER I could never match Daly for driving,
ANGEL CABRERA I made a bogey on the first, but apart from that I played very good today. I am very confident and h...
ANGEL CABRERA I played very well today - I made every putt, ... My ambition is to finish the year in the top 10. T...
ANGEL CABRERA I played very well today I made every putt, ... My ambition is to finish the year in the top 10. To ...
ANGEL CABRERA I played very well today ? I made every putt, ... My ambition is to finish the year in the top 10. T...
ANGEL CABRERA I played very well today - I made every putt. My ambition is to finish the year in the top 10. To do...
ANGEL CABRERA As a company with operations on three continents and a commitment to serving customers worldwide, we...
ANGEL CABRERA This school is about understanding,
ANGEL CABRERA He holed more putts than I did. I was always struggling when he birdied four holes in a row.
ANGEL CABRERA Corporate social responsibility is not a fad. In fact, there are structural reasons why this is happ...
ANGEL CABRERA We've learned more about the book this way than we would by just reading it. We can better understan...
ANGEL ANDERSON I'd do anything to go back to those days.
ANGEL ANDERSON