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

"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 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."

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

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

"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."