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Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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The only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep,those haunted by one thing or another:love thwarted, love lost, love thrown away. They were the sort of people who didn't want to be noticed, who wanted to slip through shadows, be alone with their despair.
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Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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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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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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My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.
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That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.
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Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss, the forgiveness. It came after you, it escaped you, it was invisible, it was everything.
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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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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.
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Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.
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What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.
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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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I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled
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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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I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
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Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.
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Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.
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But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
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...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.
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