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Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
People
Drawn
Carry
Inside
Stories

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Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.
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How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.
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Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
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That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.
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My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible.
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Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.
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I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled
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I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.
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No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
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Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.
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Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.
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I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.
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Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.
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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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I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.
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The evening had turned sweet and blue.
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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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I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.
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I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.
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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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