Audrey Niffenegger Quotes About House
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He thanked her and left the house in the mood of a shipwrecked man who has allowed the rescue ship to pass him by.
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He was not in the house. He did not come back that night. Days went by, and at last she understood that he would not return at all.
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I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit sleep firmly, willing it, wielding it, pushing away dreams, refusing, refusing. Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. [...] It is afternoon, it is night, it is morning. Everything is reduced to this bed, this endless slumber that makes the days into one day, makes time stop, stretches and compacts time until it is meaningless.
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