I think play must have been invented so we wouldn't go mad thinking about certain things. — Audrey Niffenegger Certain Copy Share Image
But as usual there's no answer to this. As usual, that's just how it is. — Audrey Niffenegger Answer Copy Share Image
But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part. — Audrey Niffenegger Difficult Copy Share Image
“To lose one child, Mr. DeTamble, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose three looks like carelessness.” — Audrey Niffenegger Children 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
My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books. — Audrey Niffenegger Apartment Copy Share Image
“That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living.” — Audrey Niffenegger Fear Copy Share Image
I'm sorry. I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just… — Audrey Niffenegger Apartment 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
I sometimes end up in dangerous situations, and I come back to you broken and messed up, and you worry about me… — Audrey Niffenegger Broken Copy Share Image
The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes… — Audrey Niffenegger Art Copy Share Image
I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who… — Audrey Niffenegger Cough drops Copy Share Image
...and I suddenly feel that Henry is there, incredible need for Henry to be there and to put his hand on me… — Audrey Niffenegger Feel 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
“Jessica put out her hand and braced herself against the door jamb. She experienced one of those rare moments when understanding of… — Audrey Niffenegger Heart Copy Share Image
“[Who are the artists you admire, Surrealist or otherwise?] Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Charlotte Salomon, Goya, Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley is not so… — Audrey Niffenegger Art 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
“As I penetrate Clare she looks at me and I think I don’t exist and a second later she turns her head… — Audrey Niffenegger Cries Copy Share Image
“I think about cutting my hair. How nice it would be to wash it, run a quick comb through it, and presto!… — Audrey Niffenegger Hair Copy Share Image
“Franz Schulze’s book “Fantastic Images” had a lot of impact on me. Mark Pascale turned me on to that book when I… — Audrey Niffenegger Art Copy Share Image
“And so the twins had remained virgins. Julia and Valentina watched all of their high school and college friends disappear one by… — Audrey Niffenegger Friendship Copy Share Image
“The Garden Under Snow " Now the garden is under snow a blank page our footprints write on clare who was never… — Audrey Niffenegger Audrey-niffenegger 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
“After my mom died she ate my father up completely. She would have hated it. Every minute of his life since then… — Audrey Niffenegger Absence Copy Share Image
“I hate to be where sheis not,when she is not. And yet I am always going, and she cannot follow.” — Audrey Niffenegger Follow Copy Share Image
He was not in the house. He did not come back that night. Days went by, and at last she understood that… — Audrey Niffenegger Days Copy Share Image
Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your… — Audrey Niffenegger Elements Copy Share Image
I'm at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me… — Audrey Niffenegger All time Copy Share Image
I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing… — Audrey Niffenegger Afternoon Copy Share Image
There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy. — Audrey Niffenegger Cemetery Copy Share Image
Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want… — Audrey Niffenegger Action Copy Share Image
He looks sad. Or maybe that's just how he looks when he isn't doing something else with his face. — Audrey Niffenegger Face 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 place my finger on her forehead and say, "vanish", but it is she who will stay; I am the one who… — Audrey Niffenegger Audrey-niffenegger 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
“I am so accustomed to living on a metaphysical trapeze that I forget that other people tend to enjoy more solid ground” — Audrey Niffenegger Accustomed 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
“Viviré en París y no comeré nada que no sea chocolate; además fumaré puros, me inyectaré heroína y solo escucharé a Jimi… — Audrey Niffenegger Amor Copy Share Image
“...dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say I'm sorry… — Audrey Niffenegger Dead people Copy Share Image
“Nor Time, nor Place, nor Chance, nor Death can bow/my least desires unto the least remove” — Audrey Niffenegger Chance Copy Share Image