752 Quotes by Alice Hoffman
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But the best stories were about their mother, how her hair was as red as blood, how she had seventy-four freckles on her face, how she was a ferryboat captain’s daughter who believed that people could fly.
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If she wanted to enter an otherworld, all she had to do was open a novel.
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I just stored up my hurts, as if they were a tower made of fallen stars, invisible to most people, but brightly burning inside of me.
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Women pitied her, but went on their way; they had their own troubles to attend to, and mercy was a scarce commodity.
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I take responsibility for the man I used to be, for I carry him with me. As strong as I am, he’s a heavy burden.
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With every step I wished myself away to another life, one lived far from here.
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Some people know the exact moment when they’ve lost everything. They can look back and see it plain as day and for the life of them they can’t understand why they didn’t spot the situation as it was happening.
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There is the outside of a story, and there is the inside of a story, he told me as we sat in his library one afternoon. One is the fruit and may be delicious, but the other is the seed.
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This was the way love walked in, barely dressed, confused, panic-stricken, overcome, not caring what anyone thought or what they believed.
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