It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one w... - Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

"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."

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

"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?"

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

"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."