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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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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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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 Clare, always Clare.
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I don't want to boss anyone and I don't want to be bossed.
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It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.
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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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Mama said, Dreams are different to real life but important too.
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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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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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Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my ability to control my movement through space if not time, and the obedience, however temporary, of my body to my will. As I run I displace air, and things come and go around me, and the path moves like a filmstrip beneath my feet.
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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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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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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 never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.
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I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.
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absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird
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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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