"The Time Traveler's Wife" [.]

The author's writing is fluid, but sometimes it's overly descriptive. Yihua calls it the 'I-walked-down-the-stairs-to-have-a-glas-of-milk' style in honor of Joan Wolf.

• Turning each page is like making a bed, an enormous expanse of paper slowly rises up and over.
• The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, ...is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances. Circe, Nimbue{?}, Artemis, Athena, all the old sorceresses: they must have known the feeling as they transformed mere men into fabulous creatures, stole the secrets of the magicians, disposed armies: ah, look, there it is, the new thing. .. The magic I can make is small magic now, deferred magic...
• (She) smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though sh is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy.
  
• "It's very charming of you to be ingorant of the twisted logic of most relationships."
  
• "But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part." {Echoes of "Happy All the Time"}
  

Henry is a punkish librarian, wouldn't you know: .
    Anne Bradstreet, Heidegger, Tristram Shandy, Wisconsin Death Trip,
    Bishop Berkeley, Papilio Ulysses, Bruce Rogers, Wim Wenders film
    Bernardo Martorell's St. George Slaying the Dragon, lettering genius Rudolf Koch,
    "The Raw and the Cooked" + Levi-Strauss, Josef Mengele

Epitaph:
    Ah, but what can we take along
into that other realm? Not the art of looking,
which is learned so slowly, and nothing that happened here. Nothing.
The suffering, then. And, above all, the heaviness,
and the experience of love, -just what is wholly
unsayable.

Nor Time, nor Place, nor Chance, nor Death can bow
    My least desires unto the least remove.

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