Certain Quote by Alice Hoffman

“I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either.”

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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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“Never look back, that's what she's told herself. Don't think about swans or being alone in the dark. Don't think of storms, or lightning and thunder, or the true love you won't ever have. Life is brushing your teeth and making breakfast for your children and not thinking about things, and as it turns out, Sally is first-rate at all…

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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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I'm a really eclectic reader.

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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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