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Clare, I want to tell you, again, I love you. Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real th...more

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Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is waiting for me. Do you know about phantom-limb sy...more

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Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from schoo...more

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It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.

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When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise. Clare has turned the second bedroom into a wonder cabinet, full of small sculpture...more

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Why is love intensified by absence?

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one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.

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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 wint...more

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‎I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that.

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To world enough and time.

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There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

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

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The space that I can call mine, that isn't full of Henry, is so small that my ideas have become small.

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

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