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Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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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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I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.
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She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.
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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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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'm a really eclectic reader.
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My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.
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What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls.
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What else is there to write about than love and loss?
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