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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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You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.
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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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He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.
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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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