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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
Evening
Turned
Blue
Sweet

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Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
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I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
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But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
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This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell.
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In Faithful, Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read The Illustrated Man.
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What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk or a gate could just appear in a wall. I think fairy tales are so psychological.
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Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss, the forgiveness. It came after you, it escaped you, it was invisible, it was everything.
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People hide their truest nature. I understood that I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?
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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
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We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.
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The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.
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Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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I feel like my eyes are killing me at the end of the day and that I shouldn't use them.
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It's not the lie that's the problem it's the distance the lie forges between you.
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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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I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.
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