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No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.
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He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.
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A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.
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Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.
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You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you're not really there.
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Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.
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Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.
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Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.
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Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.
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Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.
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Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.
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Only her death could prove her innocence a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.
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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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