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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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New York City
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Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.
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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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Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.
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You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.
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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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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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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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At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.
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This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell.
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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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Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.
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