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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.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.
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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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I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life
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Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
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Trouble is just like love, after all it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.
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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
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What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk or a gate could just appear in a wall. I think fairy tales are so psychological.
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It's not the lie that's the problem it's the distance the lie forges between you.
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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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I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment. Now I knew how I would feel if I ever lost him. That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.
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In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.
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