"There are several ways to react to being……" — Audrey Niffenegger
"There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world."
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Audrey Niffenegger
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124 Quotes by Audrey Niffenegger
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I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.
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There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of…
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Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my ability to…
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Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.
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The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid…
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We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away:…
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I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry…
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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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How does it feel? I feels exactly like one of those dreams in which you suddenly realize that you have…
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But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part.
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Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the…
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It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.
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More Abandon Quotes
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for…
— Teresa of Avila
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
— Abu Bakr
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When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon…
— Javier Bardem
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If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of…
— Gary Bauer
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance…
— Gary Bauer
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration,…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.
— George W. Bush
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I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign…
— David Byrne
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the…
— Albert Camus
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