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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

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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Lost
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She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.
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I can't really work on more than one thing at a time
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In Faithful, Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read The Illustrated Man.
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I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.
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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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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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He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
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In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.
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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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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 moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.
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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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Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
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...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go. From Alice Hoffman's Local Girls, pg.102.
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I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist
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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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This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell.
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I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival 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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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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