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Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Everything
Arms
Well
Inside
Going
Stop
Love
Fall
Like
Keep
Reason
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It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.
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I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.
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That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.
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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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At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.
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It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
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I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled
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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.
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Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
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I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
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