“Who knew the angel of sex would be so sad? ~ Time Traveler’s Wife” — Audrey Niffenegger Marriage Copy Share Image
It was silly, wasn't it? But the singing made it not silly. — Audrey Niffenegger Made Copy Share Image
I don't want to boss anyone and I don't want to be bossed. — Audrey Niffenegger Boss Copy Share Image
“It's easy to be omniscient when you've done it all before.” — Audrey Niffenegger Easy Copy Share Image
“But don't you think that it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to… — Audrey Niffenegger Extremely happy Copy Share Image
When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days. — Audrey Niffenegger Different 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
Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words. — Audrey Niffenegger Book Copy Share Image
“But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.” — Audrey Niffenegger Absence 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 Apartment Copy Share Image
It comes out so quietly that I have to ask her to repeat it: “It’s just that I thought maybe you were… — Audrey Niffenegger Married Copy Share Image
In the dim light of the computer screen he seemed otherworldly; Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty… — Audrey Niffenegger Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Each of them warmed to the sound of the other's voice. They lay in the dark together, in distant cities, each of… — Audrey Niffenegger Phones Closer Copy Share Image
“I sleep. I inhabit sleep firmly, willing it, wielding it, pushing away dreams, refusing, refusing. Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting,… — Audrey Niffenegger Dreams Copy Share Image
“[S]urrealism is my favorite fun thing. My feeling has always been why make something that merely replicates reality when you can have… — Audrey Niffenegger Reality Copy Share Image
I breathe slowly and deeply. I make my eyes still under eyelids, I make my mind still, and soon, Sleep, seeing a… — Audrey Niffenegger Breathe Copy Share Image
“When I am dead, stop waiting and be free. Of me — put me deep inside you and then go out in… — Audrey Niffenegger Deep Copy Share Image
“Eu me lembro, eu me lembro. Acordei de manhã e foi tudo um sonho maravilhoso. Mamãe riu, dizendo que viagem no tempo… — Audrey Niffenegger Amor Copy Share Image
He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh -… — Audrey Niffenegger Dictionary Copy Share Image
“Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and then and erect terrible… — Audrey Niffenegger Appreciate Copy Share Image
The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought,… — Audrey Niffenegger Broken 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
“When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise. Clare has turned the second bedroom into a… — Audrey Niffenegger Art Copy Share Image
“I feel like a pink worm in the core of this green room, as though I have eaten my way in and… — Audrey Niffenegger Heart beating 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
“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
“My head is throbbing. I need coffee. Leaving the marbled papers in a state of controlled chaos, I walk through the office… — Audrey Niffenegger Controlled chaos Copy Share Image
“He didn't take care of you; you had to take care of yourself.” — Audrey Niffenegger Care Copy Share Image
“It's living up to being happy that's the most difficult part.” — Audrey Niffenegger Difficult Copy Share Image
“The hell with virtue. I've figured out the mechanics of her dress.” — Audrey Niffenegger Character Copy Share Image
I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always. — Audrey Niffenegger Love Copy Share Image
I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me. — Audrey Niffenegger Heartbreak Copy Share Image
“We're squirrels in human form, she whispered. And so are you.” — Audrey Niffenegger Human Copy Share Image
absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird — Audrey Niffenegger Absence Copy Share Image