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DESCRIPTION: Alice Hoffman's most spellbinding novel yet--the story of a small-town librarian who, after being struck by lightning, is afforded the opportunity to begin her life anew--is now in trade paperback. A magical story of passion, loss, and renewal, THE ICE QUEEN is Alice Hoffman at... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“I had lost something before I'd known its worth, and now it was too late.”
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“Avoid life, perhaps that was the answer. The number one safety tip. *Stay away from it all.*”
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“What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map of an individual's soul.”
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“People hide their truest natures. 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 the trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves? Keep a cloak, that was fine, the thing to do; present a disguise, the outside you, the one you want people to believe.”
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“How easy it was to be undone by some things. By these things. Red pearls. Truth. What you don't want to know, need to know, have to keep in the palm of your hand. Grab it, the stinging nettle, the wasp, the shard of glass. Do it. Then live with the consequences.”
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“'Secrets are only knowledge that hasn't yet been uncovered,' he told me. 'Therefore, they're not in fact secrets, but only unrealized truth.'”
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“If a secret was only unrealized knowledge, as my brother had said, what harm could it do? How dangerous could a tiny shred of truth be? It had no thorns, no talons, no teeth nor tail nor sting. Truth, sleeping on the other side of what I knew. Of course, there were a hundred versions of the same story: a woman who has to learn what she already knows, somehow, somewhere inside.”
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First Sentence
Be careful what you wish for.
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- Alice Hoffman (Author)
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