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 look at him, look at the book, remember, this book, this moment, the first book I ever loved — Audrey Niffenegger Book 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
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
“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 Animals 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
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
What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. — Audrey Niffenegger Attention Copy Share Image
I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me. — Audrey Niffenegger Heartbreak 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 Joy Copy Share Image
“No.” Valentina closed her eyes. Of course not. “It’ll be great, Mouse. We’ll have our own apartment, we won’t have to work,” — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I… — Audrey Niffenegger Books 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
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
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
“It's hard being left behind...It's hard to be the one who stays...Why is love intensified by absence?” — Audrey Niffenegger Left behind Copy Share Image
I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble — Audrey Niffenegger Hate 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
“Very few people meet their soulmates at age six. So you gotta pass the time somehow. And Ingrid was very - patient.… — Audrey Niffenegger Patience 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
“I am so accustomed to living on a metaphysical trapeze that I forget that other people tend to enjoy more solid ground” — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image