“I'm going to fall apart...I cant--I don't know what to feel.” — Audrey Niffenegger Apart 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
“Sometimes a thing is---too much---and it has to be isolated put away.” — audrey niffenegger Away Copy Share Image
I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me. — Audrey Niffenegger Heartbreak Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I am glad when Henry's gone, but I am always glad when he come's back” — Audrey Niffenegger Henry 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
“The space that I can call mine is so small that my ideas have become small. I am like a caterpillar in… — Audrey Niffenegger Small ideas Copy Share Image
“Not because they’re dead. Though unattainability is always attractive.” — Audrey Niffenegger Attractive Copy Share Image
“She talked back, but he didn't understand her raven language of harsh caws and soft croaks.” — Audrey Niffenegger Didn Understand Copy Share Image
What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing. — Audrey Niffenegger Elixir Copy Share Image
I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books. — Audrey Niffenegger Beautiful Copy Share Image
...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a… — Audrey Niffenegger Add Copy Share Image
“he said it quietly but with such intensity that Valentina fell in love with him, though she had no name for the… — Audrey Niffenegger Heart Copy Share Image
“"I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent… — Audrey Niffenegger Eternity 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 want my own bed, in my own apartment. Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home… — Audrey Niffenegger Home Copy Share Image
Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that… — Audrey Niffenegger Future 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
“That is what madness is, isn't it? All the wheels fly off the bus and things don't make sense any more. Or… — Audrey Niffenegger Depression Copy Share Image
Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay… — Audrey Niffenegger Adventure Copy Share Image
“You didn’t answer my question. I asked you about being in love. You said what it was like when your wife went… — Audrey Niffenegger Love Copy Share Image
Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader.… — Audrey Niffenegger Book Copy Share Image
“I can appreciate that,” says Henry. He’s adding to the list. I look over his shoulder. Sex Pistols, the Clash, Gang of… — Audrey Niffenegger Dance party Copy Share Image
“And Clare, always Clare. Clare in the morning all sleepy and crumple-faced. Clare with her arms plunging into the papermaking vat, pulling… — Audrey Niffenegger Fibers Clare Copy Share Image
Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a… — Audrey Niffenegger Alcohol 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
How does it feel? I feels exactly like one of those dreams in which you suddenly realize that you have to take… — Audrey Niffenegger Animal Copy Share Image
“I want to be haunted...Haunt me...Come and put your arms around me...Or, if you can't do that, just look at me. That's… — Audrey Niffenegger Haunt Copy Share Image
