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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.

Audrey Niffenegger

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Audrey Niffenegger
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 13
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And Clare, always Clare.
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I don't want to boss anyone and I don't want to be bossed.
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Chaos is more freedom in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.
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Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.
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We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.
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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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There's always world enough and time.
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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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When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.
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I love. I have loved. I will love.
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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. As I run I displace air, and things come and go around me, and the path moves like a filmstrip beneath my feet.
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There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.
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Sometimes I'm happy when he's gone, but I'm always happy when he returns. -Clare
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…she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy
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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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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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Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against. And when I was young I didn't understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.
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