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Alice Hoffman

"Sam said, Hey, you want to get high? Amy had taken his words to mean You are so beautiful I am undone by you."

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"Sam said, Hey, you want to get high? Amy had taken his words to mean You are so beautiful I am undone by you."

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"I put my forehead on his collarbone, place one hand on his chest. Its rhythm reassures me: He is real, and he is now."

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"Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow-beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink."

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"Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will."

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"She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around."What's that?" I asked."That I do still love you."With that one sentence, everything in the universe changed."

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"I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do."

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"I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarrelling and reconciliation I need privacy - to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits."

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"After they had skated around the pond several times, my father asked my mother to marry him. I expect he did it awkwardly, but awkwardness in men was a sign of sincerity then."

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"I only had access to him when we were together in the library, and I loved them both -the library and my father- equally and without question."
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