I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afte... - Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

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

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

"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 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."

"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."