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Alice Hoffman

"She has an eye for tragedy and sorrow. Show her a rose and she'll see only the wasp in the center of the bloom."

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"She has an eye for tragedy and sorrow. Show her a rose and she'll see only the wasp in the center of the bloom."

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Vera Miles

"Smiley tears and teary smiles are priceless."

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Vera Miles

"You want to know why you felt that way about me even though you didn't love me."

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Vera Miles

"No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid."

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Vera Miles

"Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention."

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Vera Miles

"You don't annoy me. Carefully he rebuttoned the placket of her shirt. "I thought you did, at first. But now I realize it was more like the feeling you get when your foot's been asleep. And when you start moving, the blood coming back into it is uncomfortable . . . but also good. Do you understand what I mean?"Yes. I make your feet tingle.A smile came to his lips. "Among other things."

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Vera Miles

"Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity."

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Vera Miles

"Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned."

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Vera Miles

"Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;Behind the clouds is the sun still shining."

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Vera Miles

"No. I made that choice. I let all that anger and pain get twisted up in my thoughts for you. He leaned in. "It fucking kills me. Every night. I relive what I did to you every night. His forehead rested against mine. "Until you, he said softly, "I never felt truly helpless."

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Vera Miles

"I didn't like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea."

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Alice Hoffman
"Early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills."

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Alice Hoffman
"Someone killed himself because of me once, Meredith said.People kill themselves because of what's inside of them, not because of other people."

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Alice Hoffman
"I knew what happened in fairy tales. The strong survived while the weak were eaten alive."

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Alice Hoffman
"Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft."

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Alice Hoffman
"Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by."

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Alice Hoffman
"I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'"

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Alice Hoffman
"But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone."

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Alice Hoffman
"Such was the case with most unhappy students; they avoided even one another, so intent on their own unhappiness they failed to notice the other lost souls around them."

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Alice Hoffman
"When Juliet came flying down the hallway, Stella didn't recognize her friend. Juliet hadn't bothered with makeup; she was wearing a nightgown underneath her raincoat and had on plastic flip-flops. This was the way loved walked in, barely dressed, confused, panic-stricken, overcome, not caring what anyone thought or what they believed."

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Alice Hoffman
"Pride is a funny thing it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure."

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