Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Cites
- The Beatles (1)
- IN: Her Fearful Symmetry (2009) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: She said, “I know what it’s like to be dead.
I know what it is to be sad.”
And she’s making me feel like I’ve never been born.
FROM: She Said She Said, (1966), Song, UK
- Derek Walcott (2)
- IN: The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
FROM: "Love After Love", (1976), Poem, Saint Lucia
- IN: The Time Traveler's Wife (2003) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
FROM: Love After Love, (1984), Poem, Saint Lucia
- J. B. Priestley (2)
- IN: The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Clock time is our bank manager,
tax collector, police inspector;
this inner time is our wife.
FROM: Man And Time, (1964), Book, UK
- IN: The Time Traveler's Wife (2003) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Clock time is our bank manager, tax collector, police inspector; this inner time is our wife.
FROM: Man and Time, (1964), Book, UK