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he said it quietly but with such intensity that Valentina fell in love with him, though she had no name for the feeling and nothing to compare it to.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain before you can say 'Liquid-Plumr';
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marriage
humor
married-life
shower
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Henry gaat op de schommel naast me zitten, met zijn gezicht de andere kant op, en we schommelen steeds hoger en hoger , we passeren elkaar, soms gaan we gelijk op en soms gaan we zo snel langs elkaar dat het net lijkt alsof we zullen botsen, en we lachen, en lachen, en niets kan ooit verdrietig zijn, niets kan ooit worden verloren, of dood zijn, of ver weg; nu zijn we hier, en niets kan onze volmaaktheid verstoren of dit volmaakte moment va..
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schommel
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liefde
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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The house envelops us, watches us, contemplates us as we make love in it for the first time, the first time of many times, and afterward, as we lie spent on the bare floor surrounded by boxes, I feel that we have found our home.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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30439d4
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I am so tired. Even the word sleep is a lure, a seduction.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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5054b4a
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I want to tell you again, I love you. Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this 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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hy should free will be limited to right and wrong? I mean, you just decided, of your own free will, to take off your shoes. It doesn't matter, nobody cares if you wear shoes or not, and it's not sinful, or virtuous, and it doesn't affect the future, but you've exercised your free will.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Percibo una sola tarde como si fuera un dia entero; un viaje en el metro puede suponer una travesia epica. Hoy es interminable. He pasado casi todo el dia sin pensar [...], o al menos sin pensar demasiado [...], pero ahora, por la noche, mientras paseo, el recuerdo es mas fuerte que yo.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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la sensacion de que las cosas no marchan bien y de que, de hecho, todo funciona tan mal que lo unico que podemos hacer es decir: 'Jodete', una y otra vez, sin parar, gritandolo a pleno pulmon, hasta que alguien nos detenga.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Ovo je jedna od onih zimskih veceri kada se cini da hladnoca svakog pojedinog predmeta usporava vrijeme poput uskog srednjeg dijela pjscanog sata kroz koji protjece samo vrijeme, ali polako, polako.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Nasa je ljubav bila nit kroz labirint, mreza ispod hodaca po zici, jedino stvarno u mom cudnom zivotu kojemu nikad nisam mogao vjerovati. Veceras mi se cini da moja ljubav prema tebi ima vecu gustocu na ovom svijetu nego ja; kao da ce moci ostati nakon mene i okruzivati te, odrzavati, drzati.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Mrzim pomisliti kako cekas. Znam da si me cekala cijeli zivot, uvijek, nesigurna koliko ce dugo taj komad cekanja potrajati. Deset minuta, deset dana. Mjesec.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Senti, sono poche le persone che incontrano la loro anima gemella a sei anni. E bisogna pur passare il tempo, in un modo o nell'altro. Ingrid era molto... paziente. Straordinariamente paziente. Disposta ad accettare comportamenti assurdi nella speranza che un giorno io mi dessi una regolata e sposassi la sua infelice persona. Quando qualcuno e cosi paziente tu sei obbligato a provare gratitudine nei suoi confronti e di conseguenza vorresti ..
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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1927b9a
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Clock time is our bank manager, tax collector, police inspector; this inner time is our wife.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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d33f412
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If you are far away from your lover and family, if you have lost someone, if you feel a bit displaced in your own life: these stories are for you.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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I hear a muffled sniffling noise and glancing at Claire I am astonished to see that tears are streaming across her face toward her ears. I sit up and lean over her.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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I hear a muffled sniffling noise and glancing at Claire I am astonished to see that tears are streaming across her face toward her ears. I sit up and lean over her... I smooth her hair, and pull her into a sitting position, wrap my arms around her.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Odio pensare a te che aspetti, so che mi hai aspettato per tutta la vita, sempre incerta su quanto lunga sarebbe stata l'attesa. Dieci minuti, dieci giorni. Un mese. Che marito inaffidabile sono stato, Clare, come un marinaio, un Ulisse solo e schiaffeggiato dalle onde, a volte astuto e a volte soltanto un giocattolo nelle mani degli dei. Ti prego, Clare. Quando saro morto, smettila di aspettare e sii libera. Quanto a me... mettimi dentro d..
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Valentina
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Senti, sono poche le persone che incontrano la loro anima gemella a sei anni. E bisogna pur passare il tempo, in un modo o nell'altro. Ingrid era molto... paziente. Straordinariamente paziente. Disposta ad accettare comportamenti assurdi nella speranza che un giorno io mi dessi una regolata e sposassi la sua infelice persona. Quando qualcuno e cosi paziente tu sei obbligato a provare gratitudine nei suoi confronti e di conseguenza vorresti ..
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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How could you lose me? I'm not going anywhere." "I worry that you will get tired of putting up with my undependableness and you will leave me." Clare puts her sketchbook aside. I sit up. "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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So in order to cope, I pick locks, shoplift, pick pockets, mug people, panhandle, break and enter, steal cars, lie, fold, spindle, and mutilate. You name it, I've done it
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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88fc69c
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That's Henry. When he makes you moan and cry, don't say nobody never told you
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Tchotchka. Amorta. Heart of my heart. Speak to me.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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After an hour or so has passed I too am gone and there is only a blanket and a book, coffee cups, and clothing, to show that we were there at all.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Knowing the future is different from being told what I like.
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future
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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Elspeth wasn't keen. She'd lived with someone once and hated it. I think she felt differently towards the end, when I was taking care of her all the time. I think she realised that it could have worked, us living together. I'm fairly self-sufficient and so was she. She liked to be alone, knowing I was nearby if she wanted me." "Our mom is like that." "Is she?" "I think Dad is always kind of confused, you know, sometimes Mom seems like she's..
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You see," resumed Laura, "I really have some grounds for supposing that my next incarnation will be in a lower organism. I shall be an animal of some kind. On the other hand, I haven't been a bad sort in my way, so I think I may count on being a nice animal, some thing elegant and lively, with a love of fun. An otter, perhaps." "I can't imagine you as an otter," said Amanda. "Well, I don't suppose you can imagine me as an angel, if it comes..
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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 against.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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I reach up and pull my hair back from my face, show him the scar from the accident. Unconsciously, he mimics my gesture, touches the same scar on his own forehead. "It's just like mine," says my self, amazed. "How did you get it?" "The same as you. It is the same. We are the same." A translucent moment. I didn't understand, and then I did, just like that. I watch it happen. I want to be both of us at once, feel again the feeling of losing t..
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Now you're making me self-conscious. I feel like every time I blow my nose it's a historic event." "Well, it is." She rolls her eyes. "What's the opposite of determinism?" "Chaos." "Oh. I don't think I like that. Do you like that?" I take a big bite out of the Bismarck and consider chaos. "Well, I do and I don't. Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean somet..
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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We come to a house and walk down the small walkway to its backyard. In the yard there are two screens and a slide projector. People are seated in lawn chairs, watching slides of trees.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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I'm suicidal just thinking about it.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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d439f92
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DeTamble & DeTamble, Alcoholics at Large, I have not
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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and to see years all present in your face.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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a feeling of unity, oblivion, mindlessness in the best sense of the word
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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and we laugh, and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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In the past, we can only do what we did, and we can only be there if we were there.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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I love you, always. Time is nothing. Henry
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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cbb7669
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My family isn't posh; they're musicians.
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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But as usual there's no answer to this. As usual, that's just how it is.
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Audrey Niffenegger |