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Alice Hoffman

"The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe."

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"The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe."

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"Kids - in a really good way - can talk about their differences without the baggage that adults have."

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"I'm not a role model to my kids. They're a role model to me."

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"Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out."

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"Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest."

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"The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle."

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"I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did."

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"By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done."

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"You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!"

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"Even a lot of kids who are gifted can be kids who feel like wimps or nerds."

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"The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world."
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"She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me."
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"I knew the power of a single wish, after all. Invisible and inevitable, like a butterfly that beats its wings in one corner of the globe and with that single action changes the weather halfway across the world."
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"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 to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort."
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"Pride is a funny thing it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure."
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"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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"Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help."
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"I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty and devotion, even though my eyes were closed, and all that surrounded me was a darkened room. I wrote because that was who I was at the core, and if I was too damaged to walk around the block, I was lucky all the same. Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible."
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"But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind."
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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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