QUOTES by Alice Hoffman
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"Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight."
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"Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still."
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"You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood."
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"It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you."
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"Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done."
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"That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward."
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"She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless."
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"She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her."
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"Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more."
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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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"You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil."
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"I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream."
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"Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I’d always felt safer with stories than with flesh and blood."
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"Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often."
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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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"Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them."
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"Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done."
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"Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul."
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"The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world."
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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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"He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say."
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"In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone."
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"Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow."
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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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"Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away."
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"Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective."
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"Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected."
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"Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs."
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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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"You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies."
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"Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going."
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"Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure."
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"Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back."
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"When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure."
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"Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think."
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"...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go." From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102."
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