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1. "He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh - it became an entry in a dictionary of loneliness." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

2. "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." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

3. "I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

4. "What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

5. "What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

6. "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." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

7. "Is it sad to fancy David Tennant when you're dead?" ~ Audrey Niffenegger

8. "That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

9. "Love you..."Henry-"Always..."Oh God oh God-"World enough..."No!"And time..."Henry!" ~ Audrey Niffenegger

10. "...she could express her soul with that voice, whenver I listened to her I felt my life meant more than mere biology...she could really hear, she understood structure and she could analyze exactly what it was about a piece of music that had to be rendered just so...she was a very emotional person, Annette. She brought that out in other people. After she died I don't think I ever really felt anything again." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

11. "I feel that I an everything to her." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

12. "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." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

13. "I do get tired of humans" ~ Audrey Niffenegger

14. "It was silly, wasn't it? But the singing made it not silly." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

15. "It answers to the name of Henry, but you can call it Library Boy." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

16. "I think about cutting my hair. How nice it would be to wash it, run a quick comb through it, and presto! all set, ready to rock and roll. I sigh. Henry loves my hair almost as though it were a creature unto itself, as though it has a soul to call its own, as though it could love him back. I know he loves it as a part of me, but I also know he would be deeply upset if I cut it off. And I would miss it, too… it's just so much effort, sometimes I want to take it off like a wig and set it aside while I go out and play." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

17. "Nor Time, nor Place, nor Chance, nor Death can bow/my least desires unto the least remove" ~ Audrey Niffenegger

18. "It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

19. "...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" ~ Audrey Niffenegger

20. "Mama said, "Dreams are different to real life but important too." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

21. "Outside it's a perfect spring night. We stand on the sidewalk in front of our apartment building, and Henry takes my hand, and I look at him, and I raise our joined hands and Henry twirls me around and soon we're dancing down Belle Plaine Avenue, no music but the sound of cars whoosing by and our own laughter, and the smell of cherry blossoms that fall like snow on the sidewalk as we dance underneath the tress." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

22. "The space that I can call mine.. is so small that my ideas have become small. I am like a caterpillar in a cocoon of paper; all around me are sketches for sculptures, small drawings that seem like moths fluttering against the windows, beating their wings to escape from this tiny space.. Every day the ideas come more reluctantly, as though they know I will starve them and stunt their growth." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

23. "He thanked her and left the house in the mood of a shipwrecked man who has allowed the rescue ship to pass him by." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

24. "Dažreiz es priecajos, kad Henrijs ir prom, bet, kad vinš atgriežas, es priecajos vienmer." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

25. "When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a thief, a vagrant, an animal who runs and hides. I startle old women and amaze children. I am a trick, an illusion of the highest order, so incredible that I am actually true." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

26. "It wasn't quite raining, but it wasn't exactly not raining either. She heard the driver squelching along the path behind her." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

27. "Henry loves me. Henry is here, finally, now, finally. And I love him." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

28. "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." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

29. "De repente, adquiero conciencia de mí misma como alguien que está en un prado, delgada y erecta, en un lugar donde todo se ha allanado. Me echo al suelo, esperando que la tormenta, que se arremolina, no repare en mí, y me tiendo de espaldas, mirando hacia arriba, cuando el agua empieza a caer del cielo. Se me empapa la ropa en un instante, y en ese mismo momento noto que Henry está ahí, siento una increíble necesidad de que él este ahí y ponga sus manos sobre mí, aun cuando me embarga la sensación de que Henry es la lluvia y yo estoy sola, deseándolo." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

30. "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." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

31. "How do you know? I mean, if I was making you up, and I didn't want you to know you were made up, I just wouldn't tell you, right?" ~ Audrey Niffenegger

32. "...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

33. "Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am I supposed to live without you? It was not a matter of the body; his body would carry on as usual. The problem was located in the word how: he would live, but without Elspeth the flavour, the manner, the method of living were lost to him. He would have to relearn solitude." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

34. "Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship. Now I wait for Henry. He vanishes unwillingly, without warning. I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Through each moment I can see infinite moments lined up, waiting. Why has he gone where I cannot follow?" ~ Audrey Niffenegger

35. "I'm sorry. I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just the apartment." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

36. "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." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

37. "I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble" ~ Audrey Niffenegger

38. "Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

39. "I fell asleep. But later that night I woke up. There was moonlight coming through the window, and shadows of tree branches fell onto the bed, waving gently in the breeze.""And then you saw the ghost?"James laughed. "Dear chap, the branches WERE the ghost. There weren't any trees within a hundred yards of that house. They'd all been cut down years before. I saw the ghost of a tree." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

40. "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." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

41. "I want my own bed, in my own apartment. 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." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

42. "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." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

43. "Why is love intensified by absence?" ~ Audrey Niffenegger

44. "The kissed surprised him because it had been so long since he'd kissed anyone but Elspeth. It surprised Valentina because she had hardly ever kissed anyone that way - to her, kissing had always been more theoretical than physical. Afterwards she stood with her eyes closed, lips parted, face tilted. Robert thought, She's going to break my heart and I'm going to let her." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

45. "CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

46. ". . .Tell me, Clare: why on earth would a lovely girl like you want to marry Henry?'Everything in the room seems to hold its breath. Henry stiffens but doesn't say anything. I lean forward and smile at Mr. DeTamble and say, with enthusiasm, as though he has asked me what flavor of ice cream I like best: 'Because he's really, really good in bed.' In the kitchen there's a howl of laughter. Mr. DeTamble glances at Henry, who raises his eyebrows and grins, and finally even Mr. DeTamble smiles, and says 'Touché, my dear." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

47. "The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances. Circe, Nimbue, Artemis, Athena, all the old sorceresses: they must have known the feeling as they transformed mere men into fabulous creatures, stole the secrets of the magicians, disposed armies: ah, look, there it is, the new thing. Call it a swine, a war, a laurel tree. Call it art." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

48. "I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit sleep firmly, willing it, wielding it, pushing away dreams, refusing, refusing. Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. [...] It is afternoon, it is night, it is morning. Everything is reduced to this bed, this endless slumber that makes the days into one day, makes time stop, stretches and compacts time until it is meaningless." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

49. "Dreams are important to me because they are so irrational. I'm attracted to things which seem to fit together but don't in fact make any sense. Dreams didn't really have a lot to do with the novel whereas "The Adventuress," which was my first visual book, is almost entirely based on dreams. I had ten more or less random drawings and then I thought well, I'll make a plot that connects all of them. "The Three Incestuous Sisters" was kind of the same. The three characters appeared in a dream and I knew who they were." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

50. "It's dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing." ~ Audrey Niffenegger

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