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I'm a really eclectic reader.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
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New York City
New York
Eclectic
Reader
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Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.
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I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
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I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.
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I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.
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I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment. Now I knew how I would feel if I ever lost him. That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.
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He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.
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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
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Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.
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In Faithful, Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read The Illustrated Man.
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Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.
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The evening had turned sweet and blue.
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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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There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
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A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.
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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.
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They weren't true stories they were better than that.
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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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My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.
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Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
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No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
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