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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

Audrey Niffenegger

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Audrey Niffenegger
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 13
Artist
Author
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
University Teacher
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South Haven
Michigan
Exhausted
Brilliant
Warm
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Sort
Though
Way
Galaxy
Smiles

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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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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 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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Mama said, Dreams are different to real life but important too.
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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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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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Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.
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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.
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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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When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.
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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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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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There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.
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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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absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird
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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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She looks up at me, still rocking. “Henry . . . why did me decide to do this again?” “Supposedly when it’s over they hand you a baby and let you keep it.” “Oh yeah.” --Wednesday, September 5, 2001
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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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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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we both smile and we are conspirators.
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