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Alice Hoffman

"Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity."

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"Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity."

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"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."

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"Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock."

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"Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit."

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"If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!"

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"Children can see the beatitudes in nature."

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"You don't build a family by tearing down another one."

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"It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are."

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"Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels."

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"Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by."
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"After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction."
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"I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren't easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most of all."
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"It's still horrible to wish the worst on anyone. I'm sure she had her reasons. Maybe people hurt her feelings, the same way I was hurt. A single word can feel like a rock being thrown at you."
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"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 them."
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"Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head."
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"I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned."
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"She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me."
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