Audrey Niffenegger Short Quotes

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

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

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I guess no matter what your family is like, you're not surprised.

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

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

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

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

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My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books.

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But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part.

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You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried.

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

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I think play must have been invented so we wouldn't go mad thinking about certain things.

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

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CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.

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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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I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.

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

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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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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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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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When somebody is that patient, you have to feel grateful, and then you want to hurt them. Does that make any sense?

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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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