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I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
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No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.
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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, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.
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You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.
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Certain things need not be said, and there’s nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what’s about to happen.
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Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.
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Only her death could prove her innocence a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.
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We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as if they'd never walked and talked and burned, forgetting them was the real evil. That was the hole of darkness.
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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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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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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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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
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Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.
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After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction
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Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
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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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Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.
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