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What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa.
Audrey Niffenegger
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Audrey Niffenegger
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 13
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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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It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.
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...and I suddenly feel that Henry is there, incredible need for Henry to be there and to put his hand on me even while it seems to me that Henry is the rain and I am alone and wanting him - Clare
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I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.
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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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I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble
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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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That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.
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My family isn't posh they're musicians.
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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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The engagement ring is an emerald, and the dim light from the window is refracted green and white in it. The rings are silver, and they need cleaning. They need wearing, and I know just the girl to wear them.
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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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When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.
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I told Ing once that she dances like a German and she didn't like it, but it's true: she dances seriously, like lives are hanging in the balance, like precision dancing can save the starving children of India.
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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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absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird
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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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