The Time Traveler's Wife
I just finished The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. SO GOOD. Just... if you haven't read it, you definitely should. Fans of Rilke, fans of science fiction, and fans of love stories; fans of German and French and English; all of these and more should read this book.
Anyway, just read it. And bawl like I did.
And I will leave you with an excerpt, which is one of the images I have of the perfect relationship:
p. 240-1
"We are walking down the street, holding hands. There's a playground at the end of the block and I run to the swings and climb on, and Henry takes the one next to me, facing the opposite direction, and we swing higher and higher, passing each other, sometimes in synch and sometimes streaming past each other so fast it seems like we're going to collide, and we laugh, and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment."
Anyway, just read it. And bawl like I did.
And I will leave you with an excerpt, which is one of the images I have of the perfect relationship:
p. 240-1
"We are walking down the street, holding hands. There's a playground at the end of the block and I run to the swings and climb on, and Henry takes the one next to me, facing the opposite direction, and we swing higher and higher, passing each other, sometimes in synch and sometimes streaming past each other so fast it seems like we're going to collide, and we laugh, and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment."