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Each of them warmed to the sound of the other's voice. They lay in the dark together, in distant cities, each of them thinking, We were lucky this time. And they pressed their phones closer to their ears, and both of them wondered how much longer this separation could go on.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Time is nothing - Henry's Letter to Claire
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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d55c01d
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Everything is still out there: the rooftops and chimneys, the graffiti, the office towers and the cyclists; soon there will be sheep and that immense sky the keep out in the countryside... Once I thought there were two realities, inner and outer, but perhaps that's a bit meagre; I'm not quite the same person I was last night...
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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9569f9d
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But don't you think that it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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55ec374
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Jessica put out her hand and braced herself against the door jamb. She experienced one of those rare moments when understanding of the world alters and a previously impossible thing is admitted, if not understood.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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c252299
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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.
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love
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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2ab9584
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I don't know what to say to this Clare who is old and young and different from other girls, who knows that different might be hard.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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50709f5
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He saw things he had no words for.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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bd81523
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Varbut es tevi izsapnoju. Varbut tu izsapno mani; varbut mes eksistejam tikai viens otra sapnos un katru ritu, kad pamostamies, viens otru aizmirstam.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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8256111
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Why is love intensified by absence? Long ago, men went to sea and women wait for them, standing on the edge of the water, standing in the horizon for the tiny ship.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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It's hard being left behind. I wait for Henry, not knowing where he is, wondering if he's okay. It's hard to be the one who stays behind.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Alba, it's okay,' Clare says softly. She looks at me. 'Say the poem about lovers on the carpet.' I blank, and then I remember. I feel self-conscious reciting Rilke in front of all these people, and so I begin: 'Engel!: Es ware ein Platz, den wir nicht wissen-' 'Say it in English,' Clare interrupts. 'Sorry.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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And so the twins had remained virgins. Julia and Valentina watched all of their high school and college friends disappear one by one into the adult world of sex, until they were the only people they knew who lingered in the world of the uninitiated. "What was it like?" they asked each friend. The answers were vague. Sex was a private joke: you had to be there."
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sex
private-jokes
virginity
twins
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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b461c72
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Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.
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reading
memory
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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6663a3f
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Laufen bedeutet fur mich vieles: Uberleben, Ruhe, Euphorie, Einsamkeit. Es ist der Beweis meiner korperlichen Existenz und der Fahigkeit, dass ich meine Bewegung durch den Raum, wenn auch nicht in der Zeit, unter Kontrolle habe, es ist ein Ausdruck der Unterwerfung meines Korpers unter den Willen.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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fac63bb
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Roy is my favorite security guy. He's a huge African-American gentleman who always has a beautiful smile on his face. He's the King of the Main Desk, and I'm always glad to arrive at work and bask in his magnificent good cheer.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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3807ae1
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He didn't take care of you; you had to take care of yourself.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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0f4e047
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Vivire en Paris y no comere nada que no sea chocolate; ademas fumare puros, me inyectare heroina y solo escuchare a Jimi Hendrix y The Doors.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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The Garden Under Snow " Now the garden is under snow a blank page our footprints write on clare who was never mine but always belonged to herself Sleeping Beauty a crystalline blanket this is her spring this is her sleeping/awakening she is waiting everything is waiting the improbable shapes of roots my baby her face a garden, waiting."
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poem
the-time-traveler-s-wife
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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The compelling thing about making art--or making anything, I suppose--is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances. Circe, Nimbue, Artemis, Athena, all the old sorceresses: they must have known the feeling as they transformed mere men into fabulous creatures, stole the secrets of the magicians, disposed armies: ah, look, there it is, the new thing. Call it a swine, ..
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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defaaba
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Part of me wants to turn him into hamburger and part of me doesn't want to beat up somebody who's taped to a tree.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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c9601fd
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dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say until it is as meaningless as air.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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9ee78e6
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I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I want to tell a story.
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writing
storytelling
stories
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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2ab17f4
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Viz alatt elek. Minden lassu es tavoli. Tudom, hogy odafenn van egy vilag, egy napsutotte, gyors vilag, ahol az ido ugy pereg, ahogyan homokoraban a szaraz homok, de itt lenn, ahol en vagyok, levego es hang es ido es erzes mind suru es vastag. (Az idoutazo felesege)
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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She talked back, but he didn't understand her raven language of harsh caws and soft croaks.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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It wasn't quite raining, but it wasn't exactly not raining either. She heard the driver squelching along the path behind her.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Elspeth stood in the sun, letting it pour through her, watching the Kitten sleep. I want you. Elspeth felt depressed. She had never thought of herself as someone who would kill a beautiful white kitten while it napped. But apparently she was that sort of person. Don't you worry, Kitten. I'll put you right back.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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017e588
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But I don't want to just believe it, I want it to be true.
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god
claire-abshire
st-thomas-aquinas
believe
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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The heart asks pleasure first; and then excuse from pain.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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2393cdd
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The pain has receded but what's left is the shell of pain, an empty space where there should be pain but instead there is the expectation of pain.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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She's going to break my heart and I'm going to let her.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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1a0e37b
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How do you know? I mean, if I was making you up, and I didn't want you to know you were made up, I just wouldn't tell you, right?
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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But then I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness; dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say until it is as meaningless as air.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Praise means nothing to Mama, she doesn't believe it. Only criticism can flush her cheeks and catch her attention. If I were to say something disparaging she would remember it always.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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A bad thing about dying is that I've started to feel as though I'm being erased. Another bad thing is that I won't get to find out what happens next.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Dazreiz es priecajos, kad Henrijs ir prom, bet, kad vins atgriezas, es priecajos vienmer.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going, and she cannot follow.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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A me le cose sembrano troppo casuali e prive di significato perche Dio possa esistere davvero.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Io vorrei Dio. Si puo?>> Mi sento come un cretino. <> <>
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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You're my phantom limb, Mouse. I keep looking for you. I forget. I feel stupid, Mouse. Haunt me, find me, come back from wherever you are. Be with me.
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grief
her-fearful-symmetry
julia-poole
valentina-poole
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure againts.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, change into a desperate version of myself.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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And Clare, always Clare. Clare in the morning all sleepy and crumple-faced. Clare with her arms plunging into the papermaking vat, pulling up the mold and shaking it so, and so, to meld the fibers. Clare reading with her hair hanging over the back of the chair, massaging balm into her cracked red hands before bed. Clare's low voice is in my ear often. I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going, and she cannot..
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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No se como reaccionar, porque estoy enamorada de un hombre que esta delante de mi y sin embargo el no guarda ningun recuerdo de mi persona. En lo que a el respecta, todo se ubica en el futuro. Me entran ganas de reir por lo extrano de la situacion. Todo lo que se de Henry desde hace anos me desborda, mientras el me mira perplejo y temeroso"."
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Audrey Niffenegger |