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Alice Hoffman Inspirational Quotes (226)

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My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. - Aunt Frances
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I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of thingsthat was why everything had to be perfect.
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He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.
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This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.
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Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.
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He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.
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The evening had turned sweet and blue.
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Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!
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I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.
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I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us
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Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.
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Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by
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Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.
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I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.
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I'm a really eclectic reader.
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I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working
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How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.
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The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.
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Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. The ever after, what precisely was that? Your dreams, your life, your death, your everything. Was it the blank space that went on without us? The forever after we were gone?
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My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.
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I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.
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...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.
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The sky is already purple the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.
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I read The Group by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time.
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