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Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Sorrow
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Life
Sorrows
Formed
Waking

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We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as if they'd never walked and talked and burned, forgetting them was the real evil. That was the hole of darkness.
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There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
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Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
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Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.
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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 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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Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.
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I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.
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The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.
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I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing
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Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
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It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.
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I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.
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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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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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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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When I read Jerome D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought that book was speaking to me. I was 12 or 13 when I read that. I read everything on my mother's bookshelves.
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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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Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.
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I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself
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