Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

"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."

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

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

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

"It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays."

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

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

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

"one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive."

"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."

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

"It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"Why is love intensified by absence?"

"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 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."

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