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Alice Hoffman

"Life was beautiful, everyone knew that, but it was also bitter and bleak and unfair as hell and where did that leave a person? On the outs with the rest of the world. Someone who sat alone in the cafeteria, reading, escaping from his hometown simply by turning the page."

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"Life was beautiful, everyone knew that, but it was also bitter and bleak and unfair as hell and where did that leave a person? On the outs with the rest of the world. Someone who sat alone in the cafeteria, reading, escaping from his hometown simply by turning the page."

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"Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people."
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"The best way to die is when your living."
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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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"Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms."
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"Eddie wondered if every criminal saw himself as the hero of his own story and if every thankless son was convinced he'd been mistreated by his father."
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"She'd bought a blue notebook in the pharmacy to write down her aunt's remedies. Star tulip to understand dreams, bee balm for a restful sleep, black mustard seed to repel nightmares, remedies that used essential oils of almond or apricot or myrrh from thorn trees in the desert. Two eggs, which must never be eaten, set under a bed to clean a tainted atmosphere. Vinegar as a cleansing bath. Garlic, salt, and rosemary, the ancient spell to cast away evil."
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"Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done."
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"From the time I could read, I found solace in my father's library...At the ages of ten and eleven and twelve I would have preferred to remain in the library..."
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"I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told."
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"The story became a cloud, and the cloud a sheet of rain, and rain fell throughout the empire."
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