“I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.”
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Audrey Niffenegger's innovative debut, The Time Traveler's Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity in his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing. ([source][1]) [1]: https://www.audreyniffenegger.com/published-books/2015/4/22/the-time-travelers-wife-2005
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“I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.”
“We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.”
“Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.”
“To world enough and time.”
“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...”
“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?”
“I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room”
“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...”
“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...”
“Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.”
“It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.”
“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, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp...”
“Why is love intensified by absence?”
“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.”
“...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.”
“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...”
“Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older.”
“Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”
“one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.”
“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.”
“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...”
“I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that.”
“It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.”