Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

Quotes

• “The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and ...”
• “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'...”
• “I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent ...”
• “I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories...”
• “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 m...”
• “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 ...”
• “We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being...”
• “Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natura...”
• “You can still be cool when you’re dead. In fact, it’s much easier, because you aren’t getting old and fat and losing you...”
• “I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressi...”
• “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 lo...”
• “...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.”
• “one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.”
• “‎I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that.”
• “Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.”
• “It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.”
• “It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.”
• “Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.”
• “I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.”
• “Why is love intensified by absence?”