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That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.
Audrey Niffenegger
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Audrey Niffenegger
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 13
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And Clare, always Clare.
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Everything seems simple until you think about it.
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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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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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Sometimes I'm happy when he's gone, but I'm always happy when he returns. -Clare
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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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My family isn't posh they're musicians.
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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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Mama said, Dreams are different to real life but important too.
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The cure might be worse than the problem
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I love. I have loved. I will love.
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When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.
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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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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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But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part.
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