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Shelby watched the books burn. She wonders if words are pouring down on other people's houses, sad words, like beast and mourn and sorrow and mother.Alice Hoffman
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It’s frightening because love is unpredictable, emotionally unstable, and uncontainable.S.A. Wolfe
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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.Alice Hoffman
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Don't make me sit through reality.Alice Hoffman
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Feelings are best left concealed. They can bite you if you're not careful. They can eat you alive.Alice Hoffman
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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.Alice Hoffman
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She thinks of the way angels arrive, when you lease expect them, when the road is dark, when you're bleeding and alone and hopeless, when you're sleeping in a basement, convinced that no one knows you're there.Alice Hoffman