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

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Source : Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

Audrey Niffenegger

#Love Quotes #Time Quotes #Left Behind Quotes

“An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.”
“In life, a person will come and go from many homes. We may leave a house, a town, a room, but that does not mean those places leave us. Once entered, we never entirely depart the homes we make for ourselves in the world. They follow us, like shadows, until we come upon them again, waiting for us in the mist.”

Source : Ari Berk (2011). “Death Watch”, p.266, Simon and Schuster
“I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left.”
“To put it simply, we first explain what we are talking about, and then explain why what we are saying is true (pace Bertrand Russell).”
“Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior will be destructive. If our experience is destroyed, we have lost our own selves.”
“I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.”
“We can only shine the brightest as SNSD when we stand on one stage as nine.”
“The truest definition of evil is that which represents it as something contrary to nature; evil is evil because it is unnatural; a vine which should bear olive-berries, an eye to which blue seems yellow, would be diseased; an unnatural mother, an unnatural son, an unnatural act, are the strongest terms of condemnation.”

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