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The Dovekeepers

Name: The Dovekeepers
Author: Alice Hoffman

The Dovekeepers is a 2011 historical novel by American writer Alice Hoffman. The novel dramatizes the Siege of Masada by troops of the Roman Empire towards the end of the First Jewish–Roman War .

“Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.”

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“We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.”

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“Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.”

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“What men yearn for they often destroy.”

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“You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.”

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“I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.”

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“Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.”

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“Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?”

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“I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.”

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