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Remember what I've told you. Remember me.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
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New York City
New York
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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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There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in the rain and the ones that left a trace of lemon on your fingers, the ones that were the color of blood, and those that were as white as clouds. Each one was sweeter than the next and as red as gemstones.
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One of my favorites is Time and Again by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.
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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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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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You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.
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Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.
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Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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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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Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.
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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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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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Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.
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A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten.
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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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Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
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...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.
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In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.
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Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.
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He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.
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