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Quotes from The World That We Knew — Alice Hoffman

born 1952 United States

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12 quotes

If you are loved, you never lose the person who loved you. You carry them with you all your life.

The World That We Knew (2019)

Every now and then a crow would soar past with a gold ring or coat button in its beak, a shiny souvenir of murder. (p298)

The World That We Knew (2019)

He realized how little he knew of this world, but he knew this: If you could love someone, you possessed a soul. (p348)

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He wondered why it was only when you were at the end of your life that it was possible to view it with honesty and truth.

The World That We Knew (2019)

What they held in common was their aloneness, and in time, thrown together, with no world other than their own, they grew close. (p103)

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It was a wonder, a message that all things were possible, even in this cruel world. (p215)

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The most she dared to wish for now was to live long enough to become a woman. (p46)

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Two brilliant colleagues who were now wearing rags, carrying their children on their backs, thinking of starvation rather than algebra. (p116)

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You are the man I admired most of all, Julien would say to him if he could, if they were lying side by side watching the universe expand all around them. (p283)

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This is how it began, out of water, out of clay, out of air, when it was not expected, when it should have never happened, when no one else understood who she was. (p113)

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Human lives were like quicksilver; let go and they vanished. But not this time. (p319)

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'Because of this what transpired between them was something they hadn't expected, it was almost as if they had fallen in love in a world where anything could happen and nothing was impossible. (p295)

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alice Hoffman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.