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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
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
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Hearts
Broken
Around
Human
Humans
Heart
Made
Really

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I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.
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We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
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What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets each card contained the map of an individual’s soul.
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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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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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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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People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.
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Books may well be the only true magic.
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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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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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I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.
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Being human means losing everything we love best in the world, she murmured as she released me. But would you ask to be anything else?
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