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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.Alice Hoffman
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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.Alice Hoffman
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Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.Alice Hoffman
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Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.Alice Hoffman
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Pride is a funny thing it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.Alice Hoffman
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Helplessness and anger make for predictable behavior: Children are certain to shove each other and pull hair, teenagers will call each other names and cry, and grown women who are sisters will say words so cruel that each syllable will take on the form of a snake, although such a snake often circles in on itself to eat its own tail once the words are said aloud.Alice Hoffman
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Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.Alice Hoffman
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Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.Alice Hoffman
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That just goes to show that you never can tell about a person by guessing, " Frances informs her niece. "That's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.Alice Hoffman
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Although she'd never believe it, those lines in Gillian's face are the most beautiful part about her. They reveal what she's gone through and what she's survived and who exactly she is, deep inside.Alice Hoffman
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It had made her too helpless, because that's what love did. There was no way around it and no way to fight it. Now if she lost, she lost everything.Alice Hoffman