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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!
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
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That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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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 wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.
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Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.
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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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You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.
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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 just finished Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, which I think is a work of genius.
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Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.
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My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.
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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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Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.
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Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.
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I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.
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We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as if they'd never walked and talked and burned, forgetting them was the real evil. That was the hole of darkness.
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