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For me—and I think for most writers—you're a reader first and then it just happens. You so love it that you want to be part of it, and you start writing.

— Alice Hoffman Interview with Goodreads (2017)

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

Here on Earth (1997)

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

Practical Magic (1995)

Artists have themes that they go back to—that they are haunted by and obsessed with.

Interview with Goodreads (2009)

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

The Foretelling (2005)

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.

The Dovekeepers (2011)

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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