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Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I'd always felt safer with stories than with flesh and blood.
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A breeze had come up and there was the scent of loam in the air. Hay and fertilizer. Sweet grass and wild ginger. April.
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He must be an idiot to feel this way, but there's nothing he can do. He doesn't even know if he can manage to speak.
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I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.
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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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Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!
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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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Sam said, Hey, you want to get high? Amy had taken his words to mean You are so beautiful I am undone by you. — Alice Hoffman
Over the years I had grown attached to it, as men grow attached to their miseries and their burdens.
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But try as you might to protect people from danger, you cannot keep them from their true nature.
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Let my burden be your burden, and yours be mine.
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I would not begin to understand until I was a very old woman, and even then they would still be a mystery.
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Women were hurt every day and kept the cause to themselves.
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Everyone should know exactly what everyone else is thinking and then people wouldn't hurt each other so much.
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That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
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Unleavened Bread, all
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It had been better to have viewed him from a distance, so that his flaws were left unseen.
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I understood wanting to forget. Things that made you remember cut like pieces of glass.
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The best way to die is when your living
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I wondered if all creatures were drawn to what was dangerous or if we merely wanted light at any cost and were willing to burn for our desires.
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He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had.
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I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.
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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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What looked empty was full, much like water in a cup. What was most important was invisible to the eye. THE
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And what of monsters? Can they love too? We know quite well they can. For we know that they do.
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Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.
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And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.
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You are my armour and my sword, my faith and my treasure, everything I'm fighting for.
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If you do not face something, it will follow you anyway.
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She wishes nightmares were all that kept her awake. She cannot tell which disturbs here more, the future or the past.
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She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.
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I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing.
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The river runs every shade of blue that has ever been known to humankind: ink and turquoise and lapis, indigo, teal, cerulean, and ultramarine.
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You can get addicted to trouble if you're not careful.
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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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What is behind you is gone, what is in front of you awaits.
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Someone killed himself because of me once, Meredith said.People kill themselves because of what's inside of them, not because of other people. — Alice Hoffman
How had love come to this? This twisted dark place. The phone calls, the fear, the look on his face when he drove by the house.
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Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.
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Love was never a mistake,even when it wasn't returned.
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He spoke with a raven's voice, old and wise and far above the cruelty of the human race.
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I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.
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Who but a fool would stay in one place and butt her head against the same window time and again?
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She's beginning to wonder if perhaps she's haunting herself.
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Do you ever get the feeling that your life isn't really your own, and you've just sort of let things happen to you?
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Ghosts are said to move in the corners of human sight.
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She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.
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They carried what was holy within them, for every man was a temple, and every prayer spoken could be heard by our Father above us.
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She had come to believe that if her father had wanted a docile daughter, he should never have allowed her access to the ocean.
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It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.
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You couldn't see love, or touch it, or taste it, yet it could destroy you and leave you in the dark, chasing after your own destiny.
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One morning when the air was misleading and mild with hope ...
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I'm glad it all happened," he says, "Even the bad parts.
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It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.
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My expectations of what I wanted in a man I learned from a dog: loyalty and kindness.
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If anything, love was like light, illuminating what no one would have ever guessed was there in the darkness.
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She kissed him first, and all the rest followed.
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My father was both a scientist and a magician, but he declared that it was in literature wherein we discovered our truest natures.
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He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
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This was what it was. The ruin of it. The depth of it. Have it once and you can have it again. That's the riddle. That's the truth.
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He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.
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Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.
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Did you not think this was what the world was like? the Man from the Valley said to me.
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That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.
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That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.
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hand, I felt empty. They
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Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.
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I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream.
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Then let us be among those who hope that the future will be less cruel than the past.
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(Love) walks up to you,and when it does, you need to recognize it for what it is and, perhaps more important, for what it might become.
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Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.
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If she felt my gaze upon her, I assume she was accustomed to being stared at, just as I was used to wanting what I could not have.
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I was not pleased to be sent from my mother, but I occupied myself, a skill learned by children who must sometimes act older than their age.
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