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

Audrey Niffenegger

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Audrey Niffenegger
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 13
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South Haven
Michigan
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I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say I'm sorry until it is as meaningless air.
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Mama said, Dreams are different to real life but important too.
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In the dim light of the computer screen he seemed otherworldly Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage.
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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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Chaos is more freedom in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.
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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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I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.
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It's funny how we like labels. If I ever have a bookstore, I'm not going to put any labels on the sections.
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I breathe slowly and deeply. I make my eyes still under eyelids, I make my mind still, and soon, Sleep, seeing a perfect reproduction of himself, comes to be united with his facsimile.
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Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.
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Time passes and the pain begins to roll in and out as though it’s a woman standing at an ironing board, passing the iron back and forth, back and forth across a white tablecloth.
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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 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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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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I don't want to boss anyone and I don't want to be bossed.
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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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That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.
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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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