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• He made the boxes because he was lonely. He didn't have anyone to love, and he made the boxes so he could love them, and so people would know that he existed, and because birds are free and the boxes are hiding places for the birds so they will feel safe, and he wanted to be free and be safe. The boxes are for him so he can be a bird.

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  Lonely, People, Bird

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.381, Simon and Schuster

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• We are walking down the street holding hands. There is a playground at the end of the block, and I run to the swings and I climb on and Henry takes the one next to me facing the opposite direction. And we swing higher and higher passing each other, sometimes in synch and sometimes streaming past each other so fast that it seems we are going to collide. And we laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost or dead or far away. Right now we are here and nothing can mar our perfection or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

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  Running, Block, Past

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• He thanked her and left the house in the mood of a shipwrecked man who has allowed the rescue ship to pass him by.

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  Men, House, Ships

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.

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  Hallucinations, Wilderness, Melancholy

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• I've noticed that Henry needs an incredible amount of physical activity all the time in order to be happy. It's like hanging out with a greyhound.

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  Order, Needs, Incredibles

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.

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  Artist, Surprise

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against. And when I was young I didn't understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.

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  Dark, Bird, Nerves

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

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• …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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  Way, Sun, Brilliant

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• When we met I was wrecked, blasted, and damned, and I am slowly pulling myself together because I can see that you are a human being and I would like to be one, too.

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  Together, Mets, Because I Can

  Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.118, Zola Books

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• I'm at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me at all. (Time Traveler's Wife)

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  Memories, Loss, Men

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• ...and I suddenly feel that Henry is there, incredible need for Henry to be there and to put his hand on me even while it seems to me that Henry is the rain and I am alone and wanting him - Clare

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  Rain, Hands, Needs

  Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.57, Zola Books

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• Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.

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  Mom, Mother, Children

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Alive, Happened

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• I love. I have loved. I will love.

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• 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 body would carry on as usual. The problem was located in the word how: he would live, but without Elspeth the flavour, the manner, the method of living were lost to him. He would have to relearn solitude.

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  Names, Solitude, Mind

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances.

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  Art, Ideas, Substance

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Mean, Getting Older, Way

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Henry loves my hair almost as though it is a creature unto itself, as though it has a soul to call its own, as though it could love him back.

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  Hair, Soul, Creatures

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is waiting for me. Do you know about phantom-limb syndrome?" Julia nodded. "There's pain where she ought to be. It's feeding the other pain, the thing that makes me wash and count and all that. So her absence is stopping me from going to find her. Do you see?

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  Pain, Self, Waiting

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• I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble

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  Hate, I Hate

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• I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit sleep firmly, willing it, wielding it, pushing away dreams, refusing, refusing. Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. [...] It is afternoon, it is night, it is morning. Everything is reduced to this bed, this endless slumber that makes the days into one day, makes time stop, stretches and compacts time until it is meaningless.

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  Dream, Morning, Rap

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.513, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Love, Relationship, Romantic

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.321, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson.

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  Taken, Knitting, Bored

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Men, Attention, Entering

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home. Clare sighs, turns her head, and is quiet. Hi, honey. I'm home. I'm home.

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  Country, Sweet, Home

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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