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From Quotes by Alice Hoffman
- I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled
- Love was like rain: it turned into ice, or it disappeared. Now you saw it, now you couldn't find it no matter how hard you…
- How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articulate the pain; it was the pain…
- The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild…
- ...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go." From Alice Hoffman's "Local…
- My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women…
- Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have…
- Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next place and the…
- When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our…
- In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never…
- He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.
- When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and…
- But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
- Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at…
- Any weapon touched by a woman, even by accident, must be cleansed with both water and prayer so that her essence would not linger, diverting…
- Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.
- The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies…
- Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the ever finish. I…
- 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,…
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