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But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Alone
Taken
Comes
Given
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I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.
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Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
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Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss, the forgiveness. It came after you, it escaped you, it was invisible, it was everything.
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I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.
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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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Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.
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He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.
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When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.
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Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by
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Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.
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I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.
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Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.
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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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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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Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.
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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 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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