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I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.
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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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Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.
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Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die. At least, that's the way we're planning it.
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Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. The ever after, what precisely was that? Your dreams, your life, your death, your everything. Was it the blank space that went on without us? The forever after we were gone?
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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.
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Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.
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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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He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
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You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.
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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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You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.
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I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
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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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In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.
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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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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.
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It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
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Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
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