The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003)

All page numbers from the trade paperback edition published by Harcourt

• My family isn’t posh; they’re musicians.
  • p. 13

• Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my ability to control my movement through space if not time, and the obedience, however temporary, of my body to my will.
  • p. 154

• “But don’t you think,” I persist, “that it’s better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
  • p. 239

• That’s what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws.
  • p. 249

• Clare takes a mouthful, swallows it in a businesslike fashion, and says, “Well, that’s not so bad.”
  “That’s a twenty-something-dollar bottle of wine.”
  “Oh. Well, that was marvelous.”
  • p. 419

• But as usual there’s no answer to this. As usual, that’s just how it is.
  • p. 527