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Alice Hoffman Inspirational Quotes (226)

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When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.
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After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction
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That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.
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Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
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If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.
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Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you.
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Only her death could prove her innocence a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.
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I just finished Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, which I think is a work of genius.
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The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
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She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.
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No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
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Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.
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You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.
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You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.
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Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.
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Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
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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.
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She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.
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I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?
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There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in the rain and the ones that left a trace of lemon on your fingers, the ones that were the color of blood, and those that were as white as clouds. Each one was sweeter than the next and as red as gemstones.
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I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
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And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.
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The more you feel, the stronger you are.
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