“Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.”

—  Alice Hoffman, book The Ice Queen

Source: The Ice Queen

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Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer 1952

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