Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, '... by Alice Hoffman

Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.

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The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.

jealous inspirational life

Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad... by Alice Hoffman

Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.

perspective good-luck knows

It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

home running mean

I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought it merely happened, washing over you like water. It was nothing to search for, nothing to force. I didn't understand that even when we can't control our fate, we alone have the last say in matters of the heart. We can give it freely, even in the worst of times, even when it isn't returned.

fate heart rivers

In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.

losing-friends done grieving

My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

healing country school

People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?

tree people world

They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eyes closed he would often make a noise that sounded quite human, as if greeting someone in his dreams. At first it seemed that he believed Sara would return, but as the years went by I understood that his loyalty asked for no reward, and that love comes in unexpected forms. His wish was small, as hers had been -- merely to be beside her. As for me, I already knew I would never get what I wanted.

loyalty dog dream

Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to p... by Alice Hoffman

Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by

But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glo... by Alice Hoffman

But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.

given glory taken

He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.

goes-on wish looks

...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go." From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102.

girl letting-go hands

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appea... by Alice Hoffman

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

funny-things treasure pride

Sometimes movies really are the best medicine. by Alice Hoffman

Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

medicine sometimes

I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either.

I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.

who-i-am dream lying

I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," wh... by Alice Hoffman

I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.

railroads genius thinking

People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking... by Alice Hoffman

People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.

cost want people

I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.

busy dream people

There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in the rain and the ones that left a trace of lemon on your fingers, the ones that were the color of blood, and those that were as white as clouds. Each one was sweeter than the next and as red as gemstones.

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