Clare seems so pleased with the idea of me as a pirate that she forgets that I am Stranger Danger. — Audrey Niffenegger Danger Copy Share Image
“We're squirrels in human form, she whispered. And so are you.” — Audrey Niffenegger Human Copy Share Image
It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing. — Audrey Niffenegger Always love you Copy Share Image
“I'm going to fall apart...I cant--I don't know what to feel.” — Audrey Niffenegger Fall apart Copy Share Image
What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa. — Audrey Niffenegger Blank Copy Share Image
“Not because they’re dead. Though unattainability is always attractive.” — Audrey Niffenegger Attractive Copy Share Image
“How delicately language skirts the issue. How meaningless it is.” — Audrey Niffenegger Language Copy Share Image
You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried. — Audrey Niffenegger Mets Copy Share Image
He said something interesting: he said that he thinks there is only free will when you are in time, in the present.… — Audrey Niffenegger Free will Copy Share Image
You can still be cool when you’re dead. In fact, it’s much easier, because you aren’t getting old and fat and losing… — Audrey Niffenegger Being cool Copy Share Image
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just… — Audrey Niffenegger Extremely happy Copy Share Image
But you know: you know that if I could have stayed, if I could have gone on, that I would have clutched… — Audrey Niffenegger Children Copy Share Image
I place my hands over her ears and tip her head back, and kiss her, and try to put my heart into… — Audrey Niffenegger Cases Copy Share Image
“Jessica put out her hand and braced herself against the door jamb. She experienced one of those rare moments when understanding of… — Audrey Niffenegger Rare moments Copy Share Image
“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 Absence Copy Share Image
“The best love is the kind that weakens the soul, that makes us reach for more. That plants a fire in our… — Audrey Niffenegger Best love Copy Share Image
Outside it's a perfect spring night. We stand on the sidewalk in front of our apartment building, and Henry takes my hand,… — Audrey Niffenegger Apartment Copy Share Image
“It seems like we're going to collide, and we laugh, and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be… — Audrey Niffenegger Collide Copy Share Image
“As I stand in the elevator, dazed, I realise that a massive winning lottery ticket chunk of my future has somehow found… — Audrey Niffenegger Lottery ticket Copy Share Image
“I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: hours spent in airless classrooms, days home sick from… — Audrey Niffenegger Book Copy Share Image
Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for… — Audrey Niffenegger Eternity Copy Share Image
He made the boxes because he was lonely. He didn't have anyone to love, and he made the boxes so he could… — Audrey Niffenegger Bird Copy Share Image
I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where… — Audrey Niffenegger Air Copy Share Image
“Roy is my favorite security guy. He's a huge African-American gentleman who always has a beautiful smile on his face. He's the… — Audrey Niffenegger Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
We are walking down the street holding hands. There is a playground at the end of the block, and I run to… — Audrey Niffenegger Block Copy Share Image
“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 Dead people Copy Share Image
“Sister Carmelita says animals don't have souls" "Of course animals have souls, where did she get that idea?" "She said the Pope… — Audrey Niffenegger Animal Copy Share Image
“I think that a lot of people have a longing to move out of the present. The present is very constricting. You… — Audrey Niffenegger Nostalgia Copy Share Image
“Dreams are important to me because they are so irrational. I’m attracted to things which seem to fit together but don’t in… — Audrey Niffenegger Books Copy Share Image
I’m curious about things that people aren’t supposed to see—so, for example, I liked going to the British Museum, but I would… — Audrey Niffenegger Boxes Copy Share Image
We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland,… — Audrey Niffenegger Anxious Copy Share Image
I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I… — Audrey Niffenegger Afternoon Copy Share Image
…she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy — Audrey Niffenegger Brilliant Copy Share Image