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You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies. (Alice Hoffman)
Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote. View quote
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When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be. View quote
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It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found. (Alice Hoffman)
My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you. View quote
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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away. View quote
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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. View quote
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You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be. View quote
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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? View quote
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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. (Alice Hoffman)
It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too. View quote
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The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep. View quote
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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. View quote
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What men yearn for they often destroy. View quote
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