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He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.
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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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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.
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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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Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.
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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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He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.
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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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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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What men yearn for they often destroy.
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I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.
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It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was.
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Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.
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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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When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our friendship. Now I was the girl who'd stolen Andres the girl who'd lied to her about who I was. Therefore, she owned me nothing.
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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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