“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?”

— Audrey Niffenegger , book The Time Traveler's Wife

Source: The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003), p. 239

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