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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
Wells
Well
Glory
Alone
Taken
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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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I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.
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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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I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild irises... that the color of the sky was a shade that could never be replicated in any photograph, just as Heaven could never be seen from the confines of Earth.
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When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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