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Them Quotes by Alice Hoffman
- I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival…
- All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in…
- Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken…
- Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other…
- Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.
- Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.
- 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…
- I thought you were supposed to be the champion of your people,' I said. I live because I need to do that. For anyone who…
- We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as…
- Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It…
- Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.
- Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of…
- What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map…
- Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn’t help but notice which patrons checked out…
- Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me,…
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
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