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“This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.”

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Alice Hoffman is a renowned American contemporary novelist, born on March 16, 1952. Her works are known for their dreamlike narrative style and rich imagination, which have won her a large following among readers. more

“We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as far as the gods. Some soar with art, others with religion; most with love. But when we soar, we can also crash. There are few soft landings. We may find ourselves bouncing across the ground with leg-fracting force, dragged towards some foreign railway line. Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes, for both.”

Ifs Firsts May Art Sometimes Stories Force Lines Levels Grief Legs Love Story Flats Crash Aspire Soar Landing Railway Levels Of Life

Author:Julian Barnes

“More of that hair-raising energy rolled out of Vlad, until I was rubbing my arms to chase the tingling sensations away. Was this what Marty meant when he told me vampires could measure each others’ strength by feeling their auras? If so, then Vlad’s had Badass: Do Not Engage written all over it.”

Ifs Feelings Energy Written Hair Arms Vampire Over It Sensations Badass Auras Marty

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning.”

Love Is Magic Photography Meetings Levels Of Life

Author:Julian Barnes

“Hi. Cat was just keeping me company until you came back.” He glanced in the direction she’d just disappeared to before returning his attention to me. “Fourteen hundred and thirty-one." I blinked. "What's that?" "The year I was born, which is not, as you'll note, yesterday.”

Years Born Attention Company Hundred Cat Notes Yesterday Thirty Fourteen

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“Every love story is a potential grief story.”

Stories Grief Love Story Levels Of Life

Author:Julian Barnes

“Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.”

Knows Men Joy Friendship Friends Solitary Exile Solitary Man

Book:The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...

Source: The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...

“What happiness is there in just the memory of happiness?”

Memories

Author:Julian Barnes

“Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - then love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure.”

Ifs Thinking Should May Form Love Is Pleasure Moral Effects Outcomes Seriousness Exaggerated

Author:Julian Barnes

“You lose the world for a glance? Of course you do. That is what the world is for: to lose under the right circunstances.”

World Courses Loses Glances

Book:Levels of Life

Source: Levels of Life

“I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.”

Mind Made Patient Listeners Stubbornness Opinionated

Author:Walt Disney

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