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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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If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.
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I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.
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Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.
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She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.
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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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Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights was extremely important to me.
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I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.
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I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.
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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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A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.
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He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.
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Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.
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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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It's not the lie that's the problem it's the distance the lie forges between you.
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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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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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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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