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Alice Hoffman Inspirational Quotes (226)

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Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.
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I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.
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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
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But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
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He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.
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Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.
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Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
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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.
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I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.
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What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets each card contained the map of an individual’s soul.
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He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.
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I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.
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Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.
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Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
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It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.
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Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die. At least, that's the way we're planning it.
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Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.
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That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
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Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.
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What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.
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I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.
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I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.
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They weren't true stories they were better than that.
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