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You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope in their opinion, dirt could wait.
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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
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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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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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Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.
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My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. - Aunt Frances
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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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I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay
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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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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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I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.
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Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
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You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.
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The only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep,those haunted by one thing or another:love thwarted, love lost, love thrown away. They were the sort of people who didn't want to be noticed, who wanted to slip through shadows, be alone with their despair.
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Pride is a funny thing it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.
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I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.
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