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Audrey Niffenegger
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Audrey Niffenegger
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 13
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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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I love. I have loved. I will love.
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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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...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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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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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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I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble
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Mama said, Dreams are different to real life but important too.
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I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.
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It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.
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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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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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What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.
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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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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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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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There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.
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