Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books.

Sometimes I'm happy when he's gone, but I'm always happy when he returns. -Clare

Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

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

He said something interesting: he said that he thinks there is only free will when you are in time, in the present. He says in the past we can only do what we did, and we can only be there if we were there.

...and I suddenly feel that Henry is there, incredible need for Henry to be there and to put his hand on me even while it seems to me that Henry is the rain and I am alone and wanting him - Clare