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Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws. (Alice Hoffman)
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. View quote
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After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned. View quote
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Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? View quote
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People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost. View quote
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Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods. View quote
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Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity. View quote
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My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel. View quote
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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. (Alice Hoffman)
I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled. View quote
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It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world. View quote
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Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight. View quote
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I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working. View quote
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I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself. View quote
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I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays. View quote
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I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived. View quote
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That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward. View quote
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We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could. View quote
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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? (Alice Hoffman)
I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown. View quote
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Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones. View quote
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Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories. View quote
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In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients. View quote
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