Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

"Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element."

"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."

"Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment."

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

"I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me."

"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."

"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?"

"Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning."

"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."

"We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated."

"There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love."

"I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room"

"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."

"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."

"Why is love intensified by absence?"

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

"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 think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?"

"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 nothing can be predicted because we can’t know all the variables; and a Christian universe in which God made everything and it’s all here for a purpose but we have free will anyway."

"Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment."