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Audrey Niffenegger
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Audrey Niffenegger
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 13
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I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.
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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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It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.
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I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.
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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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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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I feel that I an everything to her.
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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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He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh - it became an entry in a dictionary of loneliness.
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Chaos is more freedom in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.
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absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird
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