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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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The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.
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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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What else is there to write about than love and loss?
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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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He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.
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Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.
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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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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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I'm a really eclectic reader.
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When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
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We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
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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 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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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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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
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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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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.
Alice Hoffman
Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.
Alice Hoffman
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself
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The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild irises... that the color of the sky was a shade that could never be replicated in any photograph, just as Heaven could never be seen from the confines of Earth.
Alice Hoffman
