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My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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Books may well be the only true magic.
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If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.
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That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
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But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.
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The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild irises... that the color of the sky was a shade that could never be replicated in any photograph, just as Heaven could never be seen from the confines of Earth.
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And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.
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That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.
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We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
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