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Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Stayed
Forget
Stories
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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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At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.
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That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.
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Certain things need not be said, and there’s nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what’s about to happen.
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Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.
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My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.
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When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our friendship. Now I was the girl who'd stolen Andres the girl who'd lied to her about who I was. Therefore, she owned me nothing.
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Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.
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Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.
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...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go. From Alice Hoffman's Local Girls, pg.102.
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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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She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.
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I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.
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