Alice Hoffman Quotes

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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.

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She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.

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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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When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our friendship. Now I was the girl who'd stolen Andres; the girl who'd lied to her about who I was. Therefore, she owned me nothing.

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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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Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.

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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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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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Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.

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Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were. And what we remember.

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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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But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.

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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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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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And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.

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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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If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.

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My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible.

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Any weapon touched by a woman, even by accident, must be cleansed with both water and prayer so that her essence would not linger, diverting the warrior who might use it next, for even the faintest touch could bring lust to that man's heart. Perhaps that meant a woman who was well trained in arms would be the superior warrior, her attention never wavering from her task.

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I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.

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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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Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.

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Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.

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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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People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.

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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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The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.

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My theory is that everyone, at one time or another, has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

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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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Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

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