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we both smile and we are conspirators.

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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Conspirators

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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 love. I have loved. I will love.
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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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It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.
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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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I feel that I an everything to her.
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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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My family isn't posh they're musicians.
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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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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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absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird
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And Clare, always Clare.
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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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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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You can still be cool when you’re dead. In fact, it’s much easier, because you aren’t getting old and fat and losing your hair.
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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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That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.
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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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There's always world enough and time.
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