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My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. - Aunt Frances

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
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New York City
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That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
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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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Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
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A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten.
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My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.
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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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...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.
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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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The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.
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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.
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