Her Fearful Symmetry
Audrey Niffenegger
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.”
“You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried.”
“What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.”
“Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson”
“Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am I supposed to live without you? It was not a matter of the body; his body would carry on as usual. The problem was located in the word how: he would live, but without Elspeth the flavour, the manner, the method of living were lost to him. He would have to relearn solitude.”
“I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson.”
“Is it sad to fancy David Tennant when you're dead?”
“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.”
“You didn’t answer my question. I asked you about being in love. You said what it was like when your wife went away.” Martin sat down again. How young she is. When we were that young we invented the world, no one could tell us a thing. Julia stood with her hands clenched, as though she wanted to pound an answer out of him. “Being in love is…anxious,” he said. “Wanting to please, worrying that she will see me as I really am. But wanting to be known. That is…you’re naked, moaning in the dark, no dignity at all…I wanted her to see me and to love me even though she knew everything I am, and I knew her. Now she’s gone, and my knowledge is incomplete. So all day I imagine what she is doing, what she says and who she talks to, how she looks. I try to supply the missing hours, and it gets harder as they pile up, all the time she’s been gone. I have to imagine. I don’t know, really. I don’t know any more.”
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Book Keywords:
sad, knitting, odd-people, death, arson, longing, mourning, strangeness, love, life, smoking, leaving, inspirational, travel, sarcasm
