QUOTES by Alice Hoffman
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"Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you."
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"He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky."
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"This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed."
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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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"It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone — maybe even more alone — than I was…"
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"How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms."
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"If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun."
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"Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows."
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"Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner."
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"She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future."
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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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"He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one."
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"Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen."
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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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"The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole."
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"Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree."
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"Whoever knows you when you are young can look inside you and see the person you once were, and maybe still are at certain times."
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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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"She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse."
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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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"I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect."
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"This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter."
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"What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong."
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"Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones."
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"She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all."
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"Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories."
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"It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now."
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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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"It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too."
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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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"I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown."
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"Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity."
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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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