Audrey Niffenegger - Love Quotes

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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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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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That's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws.

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I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.

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

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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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Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

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

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