Alice Hoffman - People Quotes

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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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I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.

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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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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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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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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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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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He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

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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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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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It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

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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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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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My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.

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People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?

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Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next place and the next place and the place after that? You run once, what makes you think you won't have to run all the rest of your life?... We love moment to moment... Everything changes. One minute we are part of the river, and the next we are joined with the sea.

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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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