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c694843
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It would be a bad joke if I fell and broke myself now.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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4c7605a
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I want to be haunted...Haunt me...Come and put your arms around me...Or, if you can't do that, just look at me. That's all I need. Where are you? Not here. But I can't feel you gone either...I keep looking for you. I forget. I feel stupid...Haunt me, find me, come back from wherever you are. Be with me. I'm afraid.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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27a2ffb
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every angel is terrifying
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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aceef3a
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I am past hunger, past vanity, past caring.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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0ad2157
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Why has he gone where I cannot follow?
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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ad40557
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He had never realised, while Elspeth was alive, the extent to which a thing had not completely happened until he told her about it.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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34da5cb
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It's hard to be the one who stays.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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5966f0b
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Kad sam bio mlad, nisam razumio, ali sada znam kako odsutnost moze biti prisutna, poput ostecenog zivca, poput tamne ptice. Da sam morao nastaviti zivjeti bez tebe, znam da ne bih mogao.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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8552365
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This is good, I'm taking care of myself, I'm not being an idiot, I'm remembering to eat dinner.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Henry: How does it feel? How does it feel? Sometimes it feels as though your attention has wandered for just an instant. Then, with a start, you realize that the book you were holding, the red plaid cotton shirt with white buttons, the favorite black jeans and the maroon socks with an almost-hole in one heel, the living room, the about-to-whistle tea kettle in the kitchen: all of these have vanished. You are standing, naked as a jaybird, up..
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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64fbf43
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Clare is silent. Her pragmatism and her romantic feelings about Jesus and Mary are, at thirteen, almost equally balanced. A year ago she would have said God without hesitation. In ten years she will vote for determinism, and ten years after that Clare will believe that the universe is arbitrary, that if God exists he does not hear our prayers, that cause and effect are inescapable and brutal, but meaningless. And after that? I don't know. B..
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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c39b228
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There's something about the way she says it that makes me feel strange... It dawns on me that I am jealous. Jesus. I can't believe I'm feeling jealous of a multimillionaire rock star geezer old enough to be Clare's dad.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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24e0a68
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Tenho medo de que voce se canse de nao poder contar comigo para nada e me largue. (...) - Nunca vou largar voce - diz. - Ainda que voce viva me largando. - Mas eu nunca quero te largar.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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87f34a5
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Eu me lembro, eu me lembro. Acordei de manha e foi tudo um sonho maravilhoso. Mamae riu, dizendo que viagem no tempo parecia ser uma coisa divertida e que queria tentar tambem. Essa foi a primeira vez.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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0e63207
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The only thing we can do is to say 'Fuck it' over and over again, really loud, until someone stops us.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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No." Valentina closed her eyes. Of course not. "It'll be great, Mouse. We'll have our own apartment, we won't have to work,"
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Sister Carmelita says animals don't have souls" "Of course animals have souls, where did she get that idea?" "She said the Pope says." "The Pope's an old meanie. Animals have much nicer souls than we do. They never tell lies or blow anybody up." "They eat each other." "Well, they have to eat each other; they can't go to Dairy Queen and get a large vanilla cone with sprinkles, can they? " "They could eat grass." "So could we, but we don't..
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religion
vegetarianism
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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042de43
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Time, let me vanish. Then what we separate by our very presence can come together.
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time
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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c92ec15
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Turning each page is like making a bed, an enormous expanse of paper slowly rises up and over.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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7620dc2
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Is it sad to fancy David Tennant when you're dead?" Elspeth"
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Ali ti znas: znas da bih ostao da sam mogao, da sam mogao nastaviti zivjeti, znas da bih se cvrsto drzao za svaku sekundu: sto god to bilo, ta smrt, znas da je doslo i odnijelo me poput djeteta koje odnesu patuljci.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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d0a38b1
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we are all time travelers in our minds, if not in our bodies.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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42df875
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I was thinking; it's very peaceful, here with you. It's nice to just lie here and know that the future is sort of taken care of." "Henry?"
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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c7959e5
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Sonunda kaybetseniz bile hayatta kisa bir sureligine cok mutlu olmak, bir omur boyu orta karar yasamaktan daha iyi degil mi?" -Clare"
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust. Tonight I feel that my love for you has more density in this world than I do, myself: as though it could linger on after me and surround you, keep you, hold you.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Rivelero un segreto: a volte sono contenta che Henry non ci sia. A volte mi piace stare sola. A volte, a tarda notte, passeggio per la casa e fremo di piacere all'idea di non dover parlare ne toccare, di poter camminare e basta, o restarmene seduta o fare un bagno. A volte mi sdraio sul pavimento del soggiorno ad ascoltare i Fleetwood Mac, i Bangles, i B-52's, gli Eagles, gruppi che Henry non sopporta. A volte faccio lunghe passeggiate con ..
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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f1d7713
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The wedding is tomorrow, but as the groom I don't seem to have too many responsibilities. Be there; that's the main item on my To Do list.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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there is a noticeable strain. It is as though somewhere, in one of the more remote rooms of the house, a cease-fire has been signed, and now all the parties are endeavoring to honor it, at least until tomorrow, at least until a new consignment of ammunition comes in. We are all acting, pretending to be relaxed, impersonating the ideal mother, father, sisters, brother, boyfriend, fiancee. And so it is a relief when Clare looks at her watch, ..
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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91d817e
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I loved you, I made you, and I made this for you - long after I am gone, and Henry is gone, and even Alba is gone. It will say, we made you, and here you are, here and now.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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It's as though I'm a cloud, and he's expecting rain.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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0b4c8bc
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Everything hurt but she did not mind.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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c0a937c
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I won't ever leave you," she says. "Even though you're always leaving me." "But I never want to leave you."
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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9d12215
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I'm going to fall apart...I cant--I don't know what to feel.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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84598c1
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How delicately language skirts the issue. How meaningless it is.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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ad29ee9
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Our coffee is so good we drink it ourselves!
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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0bbcf65
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Dead is the most alone you can be.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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2f8216a
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Een kraai vliegt over het gras. Zijn schaduw vliegt onder hem door en komt hem weer tegen wanneer hij onder het raam landt en een keer krast.
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schaduw
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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73b5fa1
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It's hard to be the one who stays. I keep myself busy. Time goes faster that way. I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everuthing seems simple untilnyou think about it. Why is love intensified by absence?
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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a8e1255
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When we met I was wrecked, blasted, and damned, and I am slowly pulling myself together because I can see that you are a human being and I would like to be one, too. And I have been trying to do it without you noticing, because I haven't figured out that all pretense is useless between us.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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e2de41d
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Why do I feel like I'm at the edge of a hole?
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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391a35e
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Sometimes a thing is--too much--and it has to be put away.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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4b5b364
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The apartment is a laboratory in which we conduct experiments, perform research on each other. We discover Henry hates it when I absentmindedly click my spoon against my teeth while reading the paper at breakfast. We agree that it is okay for me to listen to Joni Mitchell and it is okay for Henry to listen to the Shaggs as long as the other person isn't around. We figure out that Henry should do all the cooking and I should be in charge of ..
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married-life
relationships
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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fb95bfd
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The space that I can call mine, that isn't full of Henry, is so small that my ideas have become small.
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artists-in-love
love
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