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No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way. (p84)

— Alice Hoffman Practical Magic (1995)

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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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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

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