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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.
Audrey Niffenegger
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Audrey Niffenegger
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 13
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Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust.
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I don't want to boss anyone and I don't want to be bossed.
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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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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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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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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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we both smile and we are conspirators.
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He said something interesting: he said that he thinks there is only free will when you are in time, in the present. He says in the past we can only do what we did, and we can only be there if we were there.
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What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa.
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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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Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.
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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 hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.
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absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird
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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 hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble
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He thanked her and left the house in the mood of a shipwrecked man who has allowed the rescue ship to pass him by.
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Chaos is more freedom in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.
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I feel that I an everything to her.
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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
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