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I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.
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You can still be cool when you're dead. In fact, it's much easier, because you aren't getting old and fat and losing your hair.
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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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The choices we're working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we can't know all the variables; and a Christian universe in which God made everything and it's all here for a purpose but we have free will anyway.
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Henry loves my hair almost as though it is a creature unto itself, as though it has a soul to call its own, as though it could love him back.
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I breathe slowly and deeply. I make my eyes still under eyelids, I make my mind still, and soon, Sleep, seeing a perfect reproduction of himself, comes to be united with his facsimile.
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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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We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.
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What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.
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Sometimes a thing is—too much—and it has to be isolated and put away." Martin shrugged. "So what's in the boxes is—emotion. In the form of objects."-Her Fearful Symmetry
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It comes out so quietly that I have to ask her to repeat it: It's just that I thought maybe you were married to me.
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Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson
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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 something.
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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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I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.
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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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I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense.
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That's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws.
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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.
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He made the boxes because he was lonely. He didn't have anyone to love, and he made the boxes so he could love them, and so people would know that he existed, and because birds are free and the boxes are hiding places for the birds so they will feel safe, and he wanted to be free and be safe. The boxes are for him so he can be a bird.
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I'm at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me at all. (Time Traveler's Wife)
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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.
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But you know: you know that if I could have stayed, if I could have gone on, that I would have clutched every second: whatever it was, this death, you know that it came and took me, like a child carried away by goblins.
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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. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?
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But don't you think, I persist, 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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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Audrey Niffenegger
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Born:
June 13, 1963
(age 60)
Bio:
Audrey Niffenegger is an American writer, artist and academic.
Known for:
The Time Traveler's Wife (2003)
Her Fearful Symmetry (2009)
The Three Incestuous Sisters (2005)
Raven Girl (2013)
The Night Bookmobile (2008)
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