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The Time Traveler's Wife (2003)
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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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Maybe I'm dreaming you. Maybe you're dreaming me; maybe we only exist in each other's dreams and every morning when we wake up we forget all about each other.
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Love you..." Henry-" Always..." Oh God oh God-" World enough..." No!" And time..." Henry!
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My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books.
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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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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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Absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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That's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws.
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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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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 wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.
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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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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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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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That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.
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It's dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.
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When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.
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Yet would we die as some have done: Beating a way for the rising sun.
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Born:
June 13, 1963
(age 60)
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