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He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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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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When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
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That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
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Being human means losing everything we love best in the world, she murmured as she released me. But would you ask to be anything else?
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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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Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.
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