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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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It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.
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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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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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Time passes and the pain begins to roll in and out as though it’s a woman standing at an ironing board, passing the iron back and forth, back and forth across a white tablecloth.
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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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What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.
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I told Ing once that she dances like a German and she didn't like it, but it's true: she dances seriously, like lives are hanging in the balance, like precision dancing can save the starving children of India.
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absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird
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I've noticed that Henry needs an incredible amount of physical activity all the time in order to be happy. It's like hanging out with a greyhound.
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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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But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part.
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When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.
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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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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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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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Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.
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