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I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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New York City
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The only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep,those haunted by one thing or another:love thwarted, love lost, love thrown away. They were the sort of people who didn't want to be noticed, who wanted to slip through shadows, be alone with their despair.
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Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.
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Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out, and a lie is always a lie, no matter how prettily told. Some doors, once they're opened, can never be closed again, just as some trust, once it's been lost, can never be won back.
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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
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I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.
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Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.
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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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I read Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.
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I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of thingsthat was why everything had to be perfect.
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That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.
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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 can feel his blood, just beneath his skin when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.
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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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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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Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
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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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Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.
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Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.
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When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
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After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction
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