Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. — Audrey Niffenegger Forget Copy Share Image
“Is it sad to fancy David Tennant when you’re dead?" Elspeth” — Audrey Niffenegger David tennant Copy Share Image
When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise. — Audrey Niffenegger Art Copy Share Image
“If fervent memory could raise the dead, she would be our Eurydice.” — Audrey Niffenegger Eurydice Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a thing is--too much--and it has to be put away.” — Audrey Niffenegger Away Copy Share Image
It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays. — Audrey Niffenegger Hard Copy Share Image
“Elspeth died while Robert was standing in front of a vending machine watching tea shoot into a small plastic cup.” — Audrey Niffenegger Computers Copy Share Image
Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing. — Audrey Niffenegger Knowing Copy Share Image
Love you..." Henry-" Always..." Oh God oh God-" World enough..." No!" And time..." Henry! — Audrey Niffenegger Enough 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
I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that. — Audrey Niffenegger Life 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 Absence Copy Share Image
Henry loves my hair almost as though it is a creature unto itself, as though it has a soul to call its… — Audrey Niffenegger Creatures Copy Share Image
“He had never realised, while Elspeth was alive, the extent to which a thing had not completely happened until he told her… — Audrey Niffenegger Alive Copy Share Image
I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my… — Audrey Niffenegger Childhood Copy Share Image
When we met I was wrecked, blasted, and damned, and I am slowly pulling myself together because I can see that you… — Audrey Niffenegger Because i can Copy Share Image
“Being in love is…anxious,” he said. “Wanting to please, worrying that she will see me as I really am. But wanting to… — Audrey Niffenegger Anxious Copy Share Image
“Time is priceless, but it’s Free. You can't own it, you can use it. You can spend it. But you can't keep… — Audrey Niffenegger Free Copy Share Image
I told Ing once that she dances like a German and she didn't like it, but it's true: she dances seriously, like… — Audrey Niffenegger Balance Copy Share Image
We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now… — Audrey Niffenegger Far away Copy Share Image
“Clare on Henry: Do you ever wonder if I'm real? Maybe I'm dreaming of you. Maybe you're dreaming of me; maybe we… — Audrey Niffenegger Every morning Copy Share Image
The engagement ring is an emerald, and the dim light from the window is refracted green and white in it. The rings… — Audrey Niffenegger Cleaning 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 Caterpillars Copy Share Image
The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a… — Audrey Niffenegger Army 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
Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is waiting for me. Do… — Audrey Niffenegger Absence Copy Share Image
“I fell asleep. But later that night I woke up. There was moonlight coming through the window, and shadows of tree branches… — Audrey Niffenegger Ghosts Copy Share Image
“Of course.. some people, me included, believe that punk is just the most recent manifestation of this, this spirit, this feeling, you… — Audrey Niffenegger Religion Copy Share Image
Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am… — Audrey Niffenegger Body Copy Share Image
“I raise my head and see a red illuminated EXIT sign and as my eyes adjust I see tigers, cavemen with long… — Audrey Niffenegger Cavemen Copy Share Image
“Henry loves me. Henry is here, finally, now, finally. And I love him.” — Audrey Niffenegger Henry Copy Share Image
Is it sad to fancy David Tennant when you're dead? — Audrey Niffenegger David tennant Copy Share Image
“How delicately language skirts the issue. How meaningless it is.” — Audrey Niffenegger Delicately Copy Share Image