Versions of Reality Quotes in The Time Traveler's Wife Page 2
Citations follow this format: (Book.Chapter.Paragraph)
| Quote #4 [Henry to Clare:] "I don't usually tell myself stuff ahead of time unless it's huge, life-threatening, you know? I'm trying to live like a normal person, you know." (1.1.120) |
Henry doesn't like to interfere with the lives of his other selves. He wants all of them to experience life as a normal person, which means not knowing what the future brings.
| Quote #5 [Henry:] I remember. I remember. I woke up in the morning and it was all a wonderful dream. Mom laughed and said that time travel sounded fun, and she wanted to try it too. (1.2.78) |
The first time Henry time traveled at the age of five, he believed it all to be a wonderful dream the next morning, not reality, which allowed him to enjoy it.
| Quote #6 [Henry:] "Maybe [fairytales] are real. Or some little thing in them is real and then people just added to it, you know?" (1.4.194) |
His experience of being a time traveler has made Henry more open to the possibilities of other realities out there that most people just consider fiction, such as fairytales.
