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Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you.
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.
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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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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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Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
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Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
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Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.
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And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.
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What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.
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You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.
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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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