“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.”

— Alice Hoffman

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

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