Alice Hoffman - Feel Quotes

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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. The ever after, what precisely was that? Your dreams, your life, your death, your everything. Was it the blank space that went on without us? The forever after we were gone?

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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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I didn't want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.

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That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.

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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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It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.

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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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Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.

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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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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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