Being human Quote by Alice Hoffman

“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?”

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“It was after dark when the woods were most filled with magic, when there were fireflies and the mist was rising from the streams.”

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This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

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“She preferred cats to human beings and turned down every offer from the men who fell in love with her.”

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It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.

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“Her vision was going, but she could see him, the way people see clouds-beautiful, racing by, casting shadows.”

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That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There…

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“...the summer of the gypsy moths when all the trees in their yard were bare, the leaves chewed by caterpillars. You could hear crunching…

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