“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?”
Author detail
Audrey Niffenegger (born June 13, 1963) is an American writer, artist, and academic. Her debut novel, *The Time Traveler's Wife,* published in 2003, was a bestseller.
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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?”
“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.”
“It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.”
“Why is love intensified by absence?”
“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 th...”
“Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.”
“I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that.”
“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 menth...”
“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 misplace...”
“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 mean something.”
“The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and...”
“Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.”
“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...”
“...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.”
“After my mom died she ate my father up completely. She would have hated it. Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she...”
“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 your hair.”
“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 bod...”
“one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.”