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The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
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Happening
Adults
Universe
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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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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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It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.
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I feel like my eyes are killing me at the end of the day and that I shouldn't use them.
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Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were. And what we remember.
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And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.
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Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
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When I read Jerome D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought that book was speaking to me. I was 12 or 13 when I read that. I read everything on my mother's bookshelves.
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The best way to die is when your living
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What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk or a gate could just appear in a wall. I think fairy tales are so psychological.
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You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.
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I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either.
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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 weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
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Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.
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...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.
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There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in the rain and the ones that left a trace of lemon on your fingers, the ones that were the color of blood, and those that were as white as clouds. Each one was sweeter than the next and as red as gemstones.
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I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.
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You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.
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