Audrey Niffenegger - Henry Quotes

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I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble

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Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship. Now I wait for Henry. He vanishes unwillingly, without warning. I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Through each moment I can see infinite moments lined up, waiting. Why has he gone where I cannot follow?

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Outside it's a perfect spring night. We stand on the sidewalk in front of our apartment building, and Henry takes my hand, and I look at him, and I raise our joined hands and Henry twirls me around and soon we're dancing down Belle Plaine Avenue, no music but the sound of cars whoosing by and our own laughter, and the smell of cherry blossoms that fall like snow on the sidewalk as we dance underneath the tress.

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What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa.

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She looks up at me, still rocking. Henry... why did me decide to do this again? Supposedly when it's over they hand you a baby and let you keep it. Oh yeah. —Wednesday, September 5, 2001

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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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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've noticed that Henry needs an incredible amount of physical activity all the time in order to be happy. It's like hanging out with a greyhound.

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Love you..." Henry-" Always..." Oh God oh God-" World enough..." No!" And time..." Henry!

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