"Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and……" — Audrey Niffenegger
"Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a frame filled with cotton. I would hold it close to my face, so close I couldn't see anything but that blue. It would fill me with a feeling, a feeling I later tried to duplicate with alcohol and finally found again with Clare, a feeling of unity, oblivion, mindlessness in the best sense of the word."
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Audrey Niffenegger
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124 Quotes by Audrey Niffenegger
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CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.
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It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.
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Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
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I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
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Never accept a drink from a urologist.
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Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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