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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 menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
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Topic: Life
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 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. If I had to live on without you I know I could not do it. But I hope, I have this vision of you walking unencumbered, with your shining hair in the sun. I have not seen this with my eyes, but only with my imagination, that makes pictures, that always wanted to paint you, shining; but I hope that this vision will be true, anyway.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
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Topic: Death
We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
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Topic: Happiness
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?
From The Time Traveler's Wife
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Topic: Life
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.
From Her Fearful Symmetry
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Topic: Death
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 memories standing out.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
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Topic: Happiness
one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
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Topic: Happiness
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.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
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Topic: Inspirational
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.
From Her Fearful Symmetry
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Topic: Inspirational, Life
But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
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Topic: Life
I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room
From The Time Traveler's Wife
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Topic: Happiness
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.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
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Topic: Death
Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
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Topic: Relationships
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 menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
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 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. If I had to live on without you I know I could not do it. But I hope, I have this vision of you walking unencumbered, with your shining hair in the sun. I have not seen this with my eyes, but only with my imagination, that makes pictures, that always wanted to paint you, shining; but I hope that this vision will be true, anyway.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
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?
From The Time Traveler's Wife
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
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.
From Her Fearful Symmetry
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
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 memories standing out.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
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.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
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.
From Her Fearful Symmetry
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational, Life
But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room
From The Time Traveler's Wife
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
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.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
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 menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
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 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. If I had to live on without you I know I could not do it. But I hope, I have this vision of you walking unencumbered, with your shining hair in the sun. I have not seen this with my eyes, but only with my imagination, that makes pictures, that always wanted to paint you, shining; but I hope that this vision will be true, anyway.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
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?
From The Time Traveler's Wife
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
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.
From Her Fearful Symmetry
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
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 memories standing out.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
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.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
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.
From Her Fearful Symmetry
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational, Life
But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room
From The Time Traveler's Wife
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
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.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.
From The Time Traveler's Wife
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships