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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.
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.
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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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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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My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.
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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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