Love Quotes Quote by Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.”

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

“Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.”

“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.”

“Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”

“Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.”

“I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.”

““Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing”

“When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.”

“When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in such a way that the other is able to receive, and be grateful. When Love has matured and, through a dissolution of the self into light, become a radiance, then shall the Lover be liberated from dependence upon the Beloved, and the Beloved also be made perfect by being liberated from the Lover.”

““It was many and many a year ago,”