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

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.

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

I'm at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me at all. (Time Traveler's Wife)

It comes out so quietly that I have to ask her to repeat it: “It’s just that I thought maybe you were married to me.

The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least expect it.

that's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws