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My family isn't posh they're musicians.

Audrey Niffenegger

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Audrey Niffenegger
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 13
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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 never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.
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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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When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.
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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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But you know: you know that if I could have stayed, if I could have gone on, that I would have clutched every second: whatever it was, this death, you know that it came and took me, like a child carried away by goblins.
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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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I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.
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I love. I have loved. I will love.
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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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Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home. Clare sighs, turns her head, and is quiet. Hi, honey. I'm home. I'm home.
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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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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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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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