Audrey Niffenegger Quotes

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Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my ability to control my movement through space if not time, and the obedience, however temporary, of my body to my will.

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Absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird

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I place my hands over her ears and tip her head back, and kiss her, and try to put my heart into hers, for safekeeping, in case I lose it again.

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Clare, 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 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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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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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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The engagement ring is an emerald, and the dim light from the window is refracted green and white in it. The rings are silver, and they need cleaning. They need wearing, and I know just the girl to wear them.

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I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out.

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He thanked her and left the house in the mood of a shipwrecked man who has allowed the rescue ship to pass him by.

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Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older.

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Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

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Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.

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My reflection in the mirror shows me pink and puffy. I thought pregnant women were to supposed to glow. I am not glowing.

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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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I look at him, look at the book, remember, this book, this moment, the first book I ever loved

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I'm sorry. I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just the apartment.

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When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.

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It's dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.

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That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.

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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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