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The evening had turned sweet and blue.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Turned
Blue
Sweet
Evening

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He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.
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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.
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In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.
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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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I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.
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She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.
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What men yearn for they often destroy.
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...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.
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I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.
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A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.
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What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.
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The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
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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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I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay
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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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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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