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Books may well be the only true magic.
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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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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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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People hide their truest nature. I understood that I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?
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It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to be flipped and flopped, sunny-side up or scrambled, depending on the whims on whoever ran your life..._
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The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.
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She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.
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I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.
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I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
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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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Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.
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If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.
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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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I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.
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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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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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Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.
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My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.
Alice Hoffman
He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.
Alice Hoffman
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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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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