Clare, I want to tell you, again, I love you. 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. Tonight I feel that my love for you has more density in this world than I do, myself: as though it could linger on after me and surround you, keep you, hold you.

Audrey Niffenegger

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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 whole life?

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inspire life thinking

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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writing pregnancy love

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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tired sleep winter

Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

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realizing knowing sometimes

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

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opiates lovers sleep

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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natural-elements world moving

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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lost-ones world travel

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

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left-behind time love

we both smile and we are conspirators.

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conspirators

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

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heartbreak leaving love

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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happened alive

I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.

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love romantic relationship

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.

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chaos facts

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.

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bent hell dark

He is coming, and I am here.

Audrey Niffenegger

I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.

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morning beautiful book

…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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brilliant sun way

What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

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entering attention men

The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least expect it.

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sulking bed pain

I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense.

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depression running love