There is the outside of a story, and the inside of a story... One is the fruit and may be delicious, but the other is the seed.

Alice Hoffman
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  1. There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.

  2. Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.

  3. When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

  4. When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.

  5. ...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go." From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102.

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