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The Rules Of Magic Quotes

The Rules Of Magic by Alice Hoffman

The Rules Of Magic Quotes
"Anything whole can be broken, and anything broken can be put back together again."
"They could hear bees in the tall grass and the flickering of birds that skimmed over the lake, and then, all at once, they couldn’t."
"It’s easy to bring love to you, but getting rid of it is another matter entirely."
"Once upon a time I was young and beautiful. But that is the fairy tale, because it all passes in the blink of an eye."
"Avoid local people. They’ve never understood us and they never will."
"People ignored Franny, with her glum expression and blood-red hair, but Jet had become a legend."
"Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land."
"You had nothing to do with it. That’s not what love is."
"Unable are the Loved to die, for Love is Immortality."
"Don’t try to hide who you are, Franny. Always keep that in mind."
"You’re an Owens, aren’t you? That most certainly would not fly with him."
"Perhaps curses were only for those who believed in them."
"Families are the Nurseries of all Societies: and the First combinations of mankind."
"Love is easy to find, but not so easy to get rid of."
"Life is trouble, brother. You’ve got to fight for what you want."
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
"We never know the end of the story until we get there."
"The best way to do this is to be who you are, every part of you, the good and the bad, the sorrowful and the joyous."
"Life was short, it was over in an instant, but some things lasted."
"When you are young you are looking forward and when you are old you are looking back."
"Everything glowed with a peculiar bright light."
"What you send out will come back to you, not once but threefold."
"What good was it to be a conjurer if he couldn’t conjure his own happiness?"
"You can’t be surprised. He thinks you knew before he did."
"Aren’t you sick of being ruled by the actions of people who are long dead?"
"If you write it all down, it doesn't hurt as much."
"We never change who we are from the beginning."
"Anyone can be drowned. Given the right circumstances."
"It helps to write things down. It orders your thoughts and if you're lucky reveals feelings you didn't know you had."
"The human body is so fragile, but more and more I think the soul has real possibilities."
"Franny was reminded of the time she went to Cambridge to visit him at Mass General and Emily Flood came in, beautiful and young and windblown, there to ruin Franny’s plan to win him back."
"There you are," he said, his face breaking into a grin when he saw her."
"This is the most okay thing that’s happened in eighteen months."
"This is not the curse. This is fucking war, Franny. This is what happens to people."
"You can climb over the far wall," the taxi driver told her. "Everyone does."
"We’ll outwit the curse," he told her. "Wait and see."
"Always choose courage," Regina told her girls.
"If we’re choosing anything, let’s choose love."
"It was all because of third grade. When you walked into the classroom in a black coat, looking pissed off."
"Oh, how beautiful was the last thing he said."
"We had been in Paris six weeks. Soon it would turn cold."