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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.
Audrey Niffenegger
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Audrey Niffenegger
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 13
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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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But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part.
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It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.
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He said something interesting: he said that he thinks there is only free will when you are in time, in the present. He says in the past we can only do what we did, and we can only be there if we were there.
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I don't want to boss anyone and I don't want to be bossed.
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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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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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absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird
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When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days.
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I love. I have loved. I will love.
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I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.
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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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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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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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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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...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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