Flesh and blood Quote by Alice Hoffman

““Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I’d always felt safer with stories than with flesh and blood.””

Alice Hoffman

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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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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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Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will…

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“The flesh of Christ is like a rich and inexhaustible fountain that pours into us the life springing forth from the Godhead into itself.…

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[T]hese last few days where I've moped around damn near depressed for real, because of people who do not exist. Not really. I can…

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Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as…

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Freedom's secret wilt thou know? Counsel not with flesh and blood; Loiter not for cloak or food; Right thou feelest, rush to do.

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