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Sometimes I'm happy when he's gone, but I'm always happy when he returns. -Clare

Audrey Niffenegger

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Audrey Niffenegger
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 13
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South Haven
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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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But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part.
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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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…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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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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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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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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I love. I have loved. I will love.
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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 alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.
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Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust.
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Don't you think 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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we both smile and we are conspirators.
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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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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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My family isn't posh they're musicians.
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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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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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What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa.
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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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