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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

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Universe
Kids
Happenings
Happening
Adults

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Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.
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It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.
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Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.
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Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.
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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.
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Books may well be the only true magic.
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I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment. Now I knew how I would feel if I ever lost him. That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.
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Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.
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Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
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Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.
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Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
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Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.
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A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten.
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It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to be flipped and flopped, sunny-side up or scrambled, depending on the whims on whoever ran your life..._
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One of my favorites is Time and Again by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.
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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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Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.
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Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
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