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
“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
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
“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
“When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a thief, a… — Audrey Niffenegger Children 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
“It's living up to being happy that's the most difficult part.” — Audrey Niffenegger Life 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 Getting older 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
“Is it sad to fancy David Tennant when you’re dead?" Elspeth” — Audrey Niffenegger David tennant 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
“Everything is still out there: the rooftops and chimneys, the graffiti, the office towers and the cyclists; soon there will be sheep… — Audrey Niffenegger Last night Copy Share Image
I still feel like a castaway, th elast of a once numerous species. It was as though Robinson Crusoe discovered the telltale… — Audrey Niffenegger Beach Copy Share Image
“I now have an erection that is probably tall enough to ride some of the scarier rides at Great America without a… — Audrey Niffenegger Parenting 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
“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
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
Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm bored with knitting. I've taken… — Audrey Niffenegger Arson 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
“I hate to be where sheis not,when she is not. And yet I am always going, and she cannot follow.” — Audrey Niffenegger The-time-traveller-s-wife 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
“Part of me wants to turn him into hamburger and part of me doesn't want to beat up somebody who's taped to… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“If fervent memory could raise the dead, she would be our Eurydice.” — Audrey Niffenegger Memory Copy Share Image
I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark. — Audrey Niffenegger Bent Copy Share Image