Top 100 Audrey Niffenegger Quotes
#2. Love you ... " Henry-" Always ... " Oh God oh God-" World enough ... " No!" And time ... " Henry!
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#3. 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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#4. That's the thing about living vicariously; it's so much faster than actual living.
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#7. What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa.
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#8. I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.
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#9. But as usual there's no answer to this. As usual, that's just how it is.
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#10. You're my phantom limb, Mouse. I keep looking for you. I forget. I feel stupid, Mouse. Haunt me, find me, come back from wherever you are. Be with me.
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#11. There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.
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#12. We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.
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#15. 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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#16. I hear a muffled sniffling noise and glancing at Claire I am astonished to see that tears are streaming across her face toward her ears. I sit up and lean over her.
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#17. Clare seems so pleased with the idea of me as a pirate that she forgets that I am Stranger Danger.
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#19. [Who are the artists you admire, Surrealist or otherwise?]
Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Charlotte Salomon, Goya, Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley is not so much about the impossible as he is about freaks and deformities, but those are interesting to me too.
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#20. I think play must have been invented so we wouldn't go mad thinking about certain things.
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#21. Sometimes I am glad when Henry's gone, but I am always glad when he come's back
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#22. 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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#23. It wasn't quite raining, but it wasn't exactly not raining either. She heard the driver squelching along the path behind her.
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#24. The hell with virtue. I've figured out the mechanics of her dress.
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#28. 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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#29. I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble
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#30. Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson
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#31. If fervent memory could raise the dead, she would be our Eurydice.
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#32. 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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#34. The space that I can call mine, that isn't full of Henry, is so small that my ideas have become small.
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#35. I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.
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#36. I sometimes end up in dangerous situations, and I come back to you broken and messed up, and you worry about me when I'm gone. It's like marrying a policeman.
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#38. There's something about the way she says it that makes me feel strange ... It dawns on me that I am jealous. Jesus. I can't believe I'm feeling jealous of a multimillionaire rock star geezer old enough to be Clare's dad.
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#40. No." Valentina closed her eyes. Of course not. "It'll be great, Mouse. We'll have our own apartment, we won't have to work,
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#41. I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that.
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#42. [S]urrealism is my favorite fun thing. My feeling has always been why make something that merely replicates reality when you can have reality. My own interest lies in things that are impossible in some way.
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#45. Sometimes I'm happy when he's gone, but I'm always happy when he returns. -Clare
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#46. It's hard being left behind. I wait for Henry, not knowing where he is, wondering if he's okay. It's hard to be the one who stays behind.
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#47. 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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#48. Henry loves my hair almost as though it is a creature unto itself, as though it has a soul to call its own, as though it could love him back.
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#50. He was not in the house. He did not come back that night. Days went by, and at last she understood that he would not return at all.
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#51. That is what madness is, isn't it? All the wheels fly off the bus and things don't make sense any more. Or rather, they do, but it's not a kind of sense anyone else can understand.
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#52. He had never realized, while Elspeth was alive, the extent to which a thing had not completely happened until he told her about it.
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#53. 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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#54. Do you ever miss him?
Every day. Every minute.
Every minute, she says.
Yes, it's that way, isn't it?
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#55. Now it becomes clear that he's one of those people who is fastidious about his personal appearance but secretly skivenly about everything else
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#56. 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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#57. It's funny how we like labels. If I ever have a bookstore, I'm not going to put any labels on the sections.
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#58. When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.
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#59. But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part.
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#62. That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.
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#63. ... 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 as air.
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#64. I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness, dead people need us to rememer them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say "I am sorry", until its as meaningless as air.
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#65. 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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#66. Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.
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#67. I don't know what to say to this Clare who is old and young and different from other girls, who knows that different might be hard.
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#68. Her spirit flew out into the night
And the sky reached down
And drew her up,
And she was filled with light ...
And she is happy.
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#69. Each of them warmed to the sound of the other's voice. They lay in the dark together, in distant cities, each of them thinking, We were lucky this time. And they pressed their phones closer to their ears, and both of them wondered how much longer this separation could go on.
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#70. That's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws
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#71. Roy is my favorite security guy. He's a huge African-American gentleman who always has a beautiful smile on his face. He's the King of the Main Desk, and I'm always glad to arrive at work and bask in his magnificent good cheer.
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#73. To lose one child, Mr. DeTamble, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose three looks like carelessness.
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#74. 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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#75. She talked back, but he didn't understand her raven language of harsh caws and soft croaks.
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#76. Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other
than just getting older.
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#77. He looks sad. Or maybe that's just how he looks when he isn't doing something else with his face.
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#79. I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?
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#80. I place my hands over her ears and tip her head back, and kiss her, and try to put my heart into hers, for safekeeping, in case I lose it again.
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#83. One may do many things in a long life. I also played a great deal of tennis and brought up three children. There's time for all sorts of adventures.
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#84. I am afraid of the future; it seems to be a big box waiting for me.
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#85. 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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#86. I still feel like a castaway, th elast of a once numerous species. It was as though Robinson Crusoe discovered the telltale footprint on the beach and then realized that it was his own. Myself, small as a leaf, thin as water, begins to cry.
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#90. I now have an erection that is probably tall enough to ride some of the scarier rides at Great America without a parent.
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#91. 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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#92. So in order to cope, I pick locks, shoplift, pick pockets, mug people, panhandle, break and enter, steal cars, lie, fold, spindle, and mutilate. You name it, I've done it
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#93. I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.
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#94. ... 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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#95. Nor Time, nor Place, nor Chance, nor Death can bow/my least desires unto the least remove
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#97. But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.
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#98. Not because they're dead. Though unattainability is always attractive.
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#99. 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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#100. Henry loves me. Henry is here, finally, now, finally. And I love him.
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