Audrey Niffenegger

“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?”

“Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”

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

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

“Why is love intensified by absence?”

“I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room”