That is how you know you've left childhood behind—when you wish for time to go backward.

—Alice Hoffman in Here on Earth

About Alice Hoffman

Portrait of Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952) is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name and went on to spawn a media franchise. Many of her works fall into the genre...

More quotations from Alice Hoffman

That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.

—Alice Hoffman in Incantation

Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.

—Alice Hoffman in Skylight Confessions

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

—Alice Hoffman

That is how you know you've left childhood behind—when you wish for time to go backward.

—Alice Hoffman in Here on Earth

Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.

—Alice Hoffman in Practical Magic

History

11 Jul 2015 Added