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• We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland, or the movies at the Michigan theater relentlessly American and mindless. These were opinions I came to later, after I became a denizen of a City, an expatriate anxious to distance herself from the bumpkin ways of her youth. I am suddenly consumed 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.

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  Girl, Distance, Reading

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• Oh. A bigger studio. It dawns on me, stupid me, that Henry could win the lottery at any time at all; that he has never bothered to do so because it's not normal; that he has decided to set aside his fanatical dedication to living like a normal person so I can have a studio big enough to roller-skate across; that I am being an ingrate. "Clare? Earth to Clare..." "Thank you," I say, too abruptly.

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  Stupid, Winning, Dedication

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• I guess no matter what your family is like, you're not surprised.

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  Matter, No Matter What, Like You

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything seems simple until you think about it.

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  Simple, Thinking, Seems

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.546, Simon and Schuster

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• How does it feel? I feels exactly like one of those dreams in which you suddenly realize that you have to take a test you haven't studied for and you aren't wearing any clothes. And you've left your wallet at home. 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 am a trick, an illusion of the highest order, so incredible that I am actually true.

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  Running, Dream, Children

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Is it sad to fancy David Tennant when you're dead?

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  Fancy

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books.

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  Book, Four, Couches

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• It's funny how we like labels. If I ever have a bookstore, I'm not going to put any labels on the sections.

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  Bookstores, Labels, Ifs

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• The kissed surprised him because it had been so long since he'd kissed anyone but Elspeth. It surprised Valentina because she had hardly ever kissed anyone that way - to her, kissing had always been more theoretical than physical. Afterwards she stood with her eyes closed, lips parted, face tilted. Robert thought, She's going to break my heart and I'm going to let her.

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  Eye, Heart, Kissing

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• I still feel like a castaway, th elast of a once numerous species. It was as though Robinson Crusoe discovered the telltale footprint on the beach and then realized that it was his own. Myself, small as a leaf, thin as water, begins to cry.

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  Beach, Water, Cry

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• When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain befor you can say "Liquid-Plumr"; that it is not advisable to clip something out of the newspaper before your wife has read it, even if the newspaper in question is a week old; that I am the only person in our two-person household who can eat the same thing for dinner three nights in a row without pouting; and that headphones were invented to preserve spouses from each other's musical excesses.

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  Night, Hair, Two

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• ‎I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that.

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  Too Late, Losing, Late

  "The Time Traveler's Wife". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• I feel that I an everything to her.

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  Feels

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• Sometimes a thing is—too much—and it has to be isolated and put away." Martin shrugged. "So what's in the boxes is—emotion. In the form of objects."-Her Fearful Symmetry

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  Too Much, Emotion, Sometimes

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• I keep myself busy. Time goes faster that way.

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  Way, Busy, Faster

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Hair, Facts, Losing

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• The engagement ring is an emerald, and the dim light from the window is refracted green and white in it. The rings are silver, and they need cleaning. They need wearing, and I know just the girl to wear them.

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  Girl, Light, White

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• My reflection in the mirror shows me pink and puffy. I thought pregnant women were to supposed to glow. I am not glowing.

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  Reflection, Mirrors, Glowing

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• Clare seems so pleased with the idea of me as a pirate that she forgets that I am Stranger Danger.

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  Ideas, Pirate, Forget

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Love you..." Henry-" Always..." Oh God oh God-" World enough..." No!" And time..." Henry!

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  Love You, World, Enough

  Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.372, Zola Books

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• ...she could express her soul with that voice, whenver I listened to her I felt my life meant more than mere biology...she could really hear, she understood structure and she could analyze exactly what it was about a piece of music that had to be rendered just so...she was a very emotional person, Annette. She brought that out in other people. After she died I don't think I ever really felt anything again.

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  Emotional, Thinking, Voice

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh - it became an entry in a dictionary of loneliness.

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  Loneliness, Names, Sound

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• ...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.

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  Heart, Add, Beats

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• He looks sad. Or maybe that's just how he looks when he isn't doing something else with his face.

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  Looks, Faces

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m curious about things that people aren’t supposed to see—so, for example, I liked going to the British Museum, but I would like it better if I could go into all the offices and storage rooms, I want to look in all the drawers and—discover stuff. And I want to know about people. I mean, I know it’s probably kind of rude but I want to know why you have all these boxes and what’s in them and why all your windows are papered over and how long it’s been that way and how do you feel when you wash things and why don’t you do something about it?

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  Mean, Museums, Long

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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