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902d147
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I've noticed that Henry needs an incredible amount of physical activity all the time in order to be happy. It's like hanging out with a greyhound.
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Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a frame filled with cotton. I would hold it close to my face, so close I couldn't see anything but that blue. It would fill me with a feeling, a feeling I later tried to duplicate with alcohol and finally found again with Clare, a feeling of unity, oblivion, mindlessness in the best sense of the word.
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Clare snores, quiet animal snores that feel like bulldozers running through my head. I want my own bed, in my own apartment. Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home. Clare sighs, turns her head, and is quiet. Hi, honey, I'm home. I'm home.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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When somebody is that patient, you have to feel grateful, and then you want to hurt them. Does that make any sense?
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That's the thing about living vicariously; it's so much faster than actual living. In a few minutes we'll be worrying about names for the children.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by absence?
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love
audrey-niffenegger
the-time-traveler-s-wife
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I love you always. Time is nothing.
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love-story
time-travel
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Oh. A bigger studio. It dawns on me, stupid me, that Henry could win the lottery at any time at all; that he has never bothered to do so because it's not normal; that he has decided to set aside his fanatical dedication to living like a normal person so I can have a studio big enough to roller-skate across; that I am being an ingrate. "Clare? Earth to Clare..." "Thank you," I say, too abruptly."
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love
thanks
selflessness
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Clare seems so pleased with the idea of me as a pirate that she forgets that I am Stranger Danger.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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The kissed surprised him because it had been so long since he'd kissed anyone but Elspeth. It surprised Valentina because she had hardly ever kissed anyone that way - to her, kissing had always been more theoretical than physical. Afterwards she stood with her eyes closed, lips parted, face tilted. Robert thought, She's going to break my heart and I'm going to let her.
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977771b
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He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh - it became an entry in a dictionary of loneliness.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Dream are different than real life but important too.
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reality
real-life
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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817aa5f
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We were royally miserable together.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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I guess no matter what your family is like, you're not surprised.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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f754773
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I don't want to boss anyone and I don't want to be bossed.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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In the dim light of the computer screen he seemed otherworldly; Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.
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the-time-traveler-s-wife
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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14513c9
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Sometimes I am glad when Henry's gone, but I am always glad when he come's back
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love
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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6ca43af
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I now have an erection that is probably tall enough to ride some of the scarier rides at Great America without a parent.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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When we were that young we invented the world, no one could tell us a thing.
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imagination
friendship
naivety
sisters
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As I stand in the elevator, dazed, I realise that a massive winning lottery ticket chunk of my future has somehow found me here in the present, and I start to laugh. I cross the lobby, and as I run down the stairs to the street I see Clare running across Washington Square, jumping and whooping, and I am near tears and I don't know why.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Yes; the poem goes something like this: 'Bamboo without mind, yet sends thoughts soaring among clouds. Standing on the lone mountain, quiet, dignified, it typifies the will of a gentleman. --Painted and written with light heart, Wu Chen.'" --Sunday, May 31, 1992"
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.
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That is what madness is, isn't it? All the wheels fly off the bus and things don't make sense any more. Or rather, they do, but it's not a kind of sense anyone else can understand.
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madness
mental-illness
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19f39a5
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It's easy to be omniscient when you've done it all before.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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8470fb0
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We're squirrels in human form, she whispered. And so are you.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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I think about cutting my hair. How nice it would be to wash it, run a quick comb through it, and presto! all set, ready to rock and roll. I sigh. Henry loves my hair almost as though it were a creature unto itself, as though it has a soul to call its own, as though it could love him back. I know he loves it as a part of me, but I also know he would be deeply upset if I cut it off. And I would miss it, too... it's just so much effort, someti..
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I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Through each moment I can see infinite moments lined up, waiting. Why has he gone where I cannot follow? "
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The hell with virtue. I've figured out the mechanics of her dress.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Her spirit flew out into the night And the sky reached down And drew her up, And she was filled with light... And she is happy.
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Angel!
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now it becomes clear that he's one of those people who is fastidious about his personal appearance but secretly skivenly about everything else
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Time is nothing.
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Being in love is...anxious," he said. "Wanting to please, worrying that she will see me as I really am. But wanting to be known. That is...you're naked, moaning in the dark, no dignity at all...I wanted her to see me and to love me even though she knew everything I am, and I knew her."
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Sometimes a thing is---too much---and it has to be isolated put away.
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Nor Time, nor Place, nor Chance, nor Death can bow/my least desires unto the least remove
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henry
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Clare on Henry: Do you ever wonder if I'm real? Maybe I'm dreaming of you. Maybe you're dreaming of me; maybe we only exist in each other's dreams and every morning when we wake up we forget all about each other.
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As I penetrate Clare she looks at me and I think I don't exist and a second later she turns her head and sees me. She cries out, not loudly, and looks back at me, above her, in her. Then she remembers, accepts it, this is pretty strange but it's okay, and in this moment I love her more than life.
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To lose one child, Mr. DeTamble, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose three looks like carelessness.
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Los halagos no significan nada para ella, no cree en ellos. Solo las criticas arrancan un rubor a sus mejillas y atraen su atencion. Si yo le dijera algo despectivo, ella siempre lo recordaria.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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He sometimes had nightmares that featured e-mail.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Not because they're dead. Though unattainability is always attractive.
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Here all of nature was captured, labeled, arranged according to a logic that seemed as timeless as if ordered by God, perhaps a God who had mislaid the original paperwork on the Creation and had requested the Field Museum staff to help him out and keep track of it all.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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I fell asleep. But later that night I woke up. There was moonlight coming through the window, and shadows of tree branches fell onto the bed, waving gently in the breeze." "And then you saw the ghost?" James laughed. "Dear chap, the branches WERE the ghost. There weren't any trees within a hundred yards of that house. They'd all been cut down years before. I saw the ghost of a tree."
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