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People expected certain things of me: assistance, silence, comfort. They had no idea who I was.Alice Hoffman
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Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the ever finish. I suppose I thought if my grandmother kept up her interests, she wouldn't die; she'd have to stay around to finish the books she was so fond of. "I've got to get to the bottom of this one, " she'd say, as if a book were no different from a pond or a lake. I thought she'd go on reading forever but it didn't work out that way. .Alice Hoffman
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Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.Alice Hoffman
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You want to know what love is? Its the thing that ruins you.Alice Hoffman
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I knew the power of a single wish, after all. Invisible and inevitable, like a butterfly that beats its wings in one corner of the globe and with that single action changes the weather halfway across the world.Alice Hoffman
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Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.Alice Hoffman
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I thought he knew me better than most... Then one nigh Jack brought me flowers, a handful of fading daisies he'd picked up at a farm stand, but flowers all the same. That was the end; that was how he ruined everything.Alice Hoffman