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Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.
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I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment. Now I knew how I would feel if I ever lost him. That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.
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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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