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Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our friendship. Now I was the girl who'd stolen Andres the girl who'd lied to her about who I was. Therefore, she owned me nothing.
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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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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.
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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
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The sky is already purple the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.
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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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Remember what I've told you. Remember me.
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...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.
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I'm a really eclectic reader.
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Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.
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Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?
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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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Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.
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I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.
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Trouble is just like love, after all it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.
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Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
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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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They weren't true stories they were better than that.
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