Happiness Quote by Audrey Niffenegger

“We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.” quote by Audrey Niffenegger — Download Open image

“We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.”

Audrey Niffenegger

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Everything seems simple until you think about it.

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We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland, or the movies at the Michigan theater relentlessly American and mindless. These were opinions I came to later, after I became a denizen of a City, an expatriate anxious to distance herself from the bumpkin ways of her…

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“Dead is the most alone you can be.”

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What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

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

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