Audrey Niffenegger

My reflection in the mirror shows me pink and puffy. I thought pregnant women were to supposed to glow. I am not…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“To lose one child, Mr. DeTamble, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose three looks like carelessness.”

— Audrey Niffenegger

“When I was young I didn't understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living.”

— Audrey Niffenegger

My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books.

— Audrey Niffenegger

But as usual there's no answer to this. As usual, that's just how it is.

— Audrey Niffenegger

But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part.

— Audrey Niffenegger

“I hate to be where sheis not,when she is not. And yet I am always going, and she cannot follow.”

— Audrey Niffenegger

There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to…

— Audrey Niffenegger

The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes…

— Audrey Niffenegger

I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who…

— Audrey Niffenegger

I sometimes end up in dangerous situations, and I come back to you broken and messed up, and you worry about me…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“Jessica put out her hand and braced herself against the door jamb. She experienced one of those rare moments when understanding of…

— Audrey Niffenegger

...and I suddenly feel that Henry is there, incredible need for Henry to be there and to put his hand on me…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“The best love is the kind that weakens the soul, that makes us reach for more. That plants a fire in our…

— Audrey Niffenegger

That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living. In a few minutes we’ll be worrying about names…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“As I penetrate Clare she looks at me and I think I don’t exist and a second later she turns her head…

— Audrey Niffenegger

Oh. A bigger studio. It dawns on me, stupid me, that Henry could win the lottery at any time at all; that…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“Franz Schulze’s book “Fantastic Images” had a lot of impact on me. Mark Pascale turned me on to that book when I…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“And so the twins had remained virgins. Julia and Valentina watched all of their high school and college friends disappear one by…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“I think about cutting my hair. How nice it would be to wash it, run a quick comb through it, and presto!…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“The Garden Under Snow " Now the garden is under snow a blank page our footprints write on clare who was never…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“I don't know about you, but I'm kind of fed up with realism. After all, there's enough reality already; why make more…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“Everything is still out there: the rooftops and chimneys, the graffiti, the office towers and the cyclists; soon there will be sheep…

— Audrey Niffenegger

He was not in the house. He did not come back that night. Days went by, and at last she understood that…

— Audrey Niffenegger

I'm sorry. I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just…

— Audrey Niffenegger

There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.

— Audrey Niffenegger

Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your…

— Audrey Niffenegger

I'm at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me…

— Audrey Niffenegger

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing…

— Audrey Niffenegger

…she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy

— Audrey Niffenegger

“I am so accustomed to living on a metaphysical trapeze that I forget that other people tend to enjoy more solid ground”

— Audrey Niffenegger

You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried.

— Audrey Niffenegger

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I…

— Audrey Niffenegger

He looks sad. Or maybe that's just how he looks when he isn't doing something else with his face.

— Audrey Niffenegger

“I place my finger on her forehead and say, "vanish", but it is she who will stay; I am the one who…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“Nor Time, nor Place, nor Chance, nor Death can bow/my least desires unto the least remove”

— Audrey Niffenegger

“It wasn't quite raining, but it wasn't exactly not raining either. She heard the driver squelching along the path behind her.”

— Audrey Niffenegger

“It's hard being left behind. I wait for Henry, not knowing where he is, wondering if he's okay. It's hard to be…

— Audrey Niffenegger