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Certain things need not be said, and there’s nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what’s about to happen.
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.
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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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He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.
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I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.
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Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head
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People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.
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It's not the lie that's the problem it's the distance the lie forges between you.
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That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
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It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was.
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I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.
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The more you feel, the stronger you are.
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A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.
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But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.
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