Alice Hoffman
"Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with."
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"Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with."
"قد يبدو الصواب خطأً فادحًا أحيانًا، حتى ينقضي أمره ويتم."
Alice Hoffman
Practical Magic
"Books may well be the only true magic."
"لعل الكتب هي السحر الحقيقي الوحيد."
Alice Hoffman
"Fate is what you make of it ... You can make the best of it, or you can let it make the best of you."
"القدر ما تصنعه أنت... فإما أن تصنع منه أفضل ما يكون، أو تدعه يصنع أفضل ما فيه منك."
Alice Hoffman
Magic Lessons
"...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go."
"كانت له طريقة في الإمساك بيدك توحي بوضوح أنه هو من سيقرر متى يتركها."
Alice Hoffman
Local Girls
"Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs."
"الحب من طرف واحد مملٌ حقًا. البكاء تحت سماء حالكة الزرقة هو للمغفلين أو المجانين."
Alice Hoffman
Practical Magic
"Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working."
"الأمهات يجدن دائمًا سبلًا لإنجاز العمل، ولكن حين تعملين، يساورك شعور بأنكِ يجب أن تقضي وقتًا مع أطفالك، وحين تكونين مع أطفالك، ينشغل فكرك بالعمل."
Alice Hoffman
"Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold."
"من بين البشر، لا يُفصح المحبون عن حبهم دائمًا بالقول الصريح أو العهود الجازمة. لكنهم هم من تذرف عيونهم الدمع عند رحيلك، ومن يحنّون إليك كل ليلة، خاصة حين تتعمق زرقة السماء وتزداد بهاءً، وتشتد برودة الأرض."
Alice Hoffman
"I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes."
"أرى أن النضوج رحلة شاقة، عملية تستهويني دومًا، فالأطفال والكبار غالبًا ما يعيشون في عالمين متوازيين."
Alice Hoffman
"All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are."
"شخصيات كتبي كلها من نسج الخيال، لكن كل واحدة منها تحمل شيئًا مني، تمامًا كما أن شخصيات أحلامك تتشكل كلها من ذاتك."
Alice Hoffman
"Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller."
"هل يختار الناس الفن الذي يلهمهم؟ هل يتأملون فيه، ويقررون أنهم قد يفضلون الخيالي على الواقعي؟ بالنسبة لي، كانت تلك القراءات المبكرة للحكايات الخرافية هي التي صقلتني كقارئة، ثم لاحقًا كراوية قصص."
Alice Hoffman
"I wrote Seventh Heaven for my mother who I miss eve"
"سماء سابعة كتبتها لأمي التي أفتقدها كل مساء."
Alice Hoffman
"The story became a cloud, and the cloud a sheet of rain, and rain fell throughout the empire."
"تَحَوَّلَتِ القِصَّةُ إلى غَيْمَةٍ، والغَيْمَةُ إلى سِتارٍ مِنَ المَطَرِ، فَهَطَلَ المَطَرُ في أَنحاءِ الإمبراطوريةِ كُلِّها."
Alice Hoffman
"What was desire anyway, when examined in the clear light of day? Was it the way a woman searched for her clothes in the morning, or the manner in which a man might watch her sit before the mirror and comb her hair? Was it a pale November dawn, when ice formed on windowpanes and crows called from the bare black trees? Or was it the way a person might yield to the night, setting forth on a path so unexpected that daylight would never again be completely clear?"
Alice Hoffman
"Before she can stop herself, she thinks about desire, how it lives within you and yet is separate, surfacing when it chooses, without permission, in the harsh afternoon light, at the moment when you least expect to find it."
Alice Hoffman
"The best way to die is when your living"
Alice Hoffman
"I once believed that life was a gift. I thought whatever I wanted I would someday possess. Is that greed, or only youth? Is it hope or stupidity? As far as I was concerned the future was a book I could write to suit myself, chapter after chapter of good fortune. All was right with the world, and my place in it was assured, or so I thought then. I had no idea that all stories unfold like white flowers, petal by petal, each in its own time and season, dependant on circumstances and fate. ~ Green Heart, Alice Hoffman"
Alice Hoffman
"It's still horrible to wish the worst on anyone. I'm sure she had her reasons. Maybe people hurt her feelings, the same way I was hurt. A single word can feel like a rock being thrown at you."
Alice Hoffman
"I head a bitterness that hadn't been there before. Something was changing inside him. He'd had enough of following the rules."
Alice Hoffman
"James had a theory about caged birds, one he hoped to prove when he became a scientist someday. He believed that all birds that had their freedom taken from them eventually lost their voices. Once that happened, they could never find their true song."
Alice Hoffman
"He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate. Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent."
Alice Hoffman
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