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Here I am going to put some of my favorite quotes, just so that I have them all in one place. I don’t know how often I will add new ones, if at all.

From The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

* 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 simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by absence?

* I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity.

* “Do you ever miss him?” she asks me.

“Every day. Every Minute” “

“Every minute.” she says. “Yes. It’s that way, isn’t it?”

* “I love him. He’s my life. I’ve been waiting for him, my whole life and now, he’s here”

* “But you make me happy. It’s living up to being happy that’s the difficult part”

* “That’s what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws.”

* Time, let me vanish. Then what we separate by our very presence can come together.

From Anais Nin

* “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage”

* “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

* “How wrong is it for women to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than set out to create it herself.”

* “Dreams are necessary to life.”

* “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

* “People living deeply have no fear of death.”

* “Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions”

* “When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”

* “I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don’t mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding.”

* “I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”

* “We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.”

* “Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”

* “Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”

* “Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.”

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