“It's hard being left behind. I wait for Henry, not knowing where he is, wondering if he's okay. It's hard to be… — Audrey Niffenegger Henry Copy Share Image
“It wasn't quite raining, but it wasn't exactly not raining either. She heard the driver squelching along the path behind her.” — Audrey Niffenegger Motivation 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 Erection Copy Share Image
Clare seems so pleased with the idea of me as a pirate that she forgets that I am Stranger Danger. — Audrey Niffenegger Danger Copy Share Image
“She talked back, but he didn't understand her raven language of harsh caws and soft croaks.” — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“Not because they’re dead. Though unattainability is always attractive.” — Audrey Niffenegger Attractive 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
What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa. — Audrey Niffenegger Blank Copy Share Image
I place my hands over her ears and tip her head back, and kiss her, and try to put my heart into… — Audrey Niffenegger Cases Copy Share Image
“-Varbūt es tevi izsapņoju. Varbūt tu izsapņo mani; varbūt mēs eksistējam tikai viens otra sapņos un katru rītu, kad pamostamies, viens otru… — Audrey Niffenegger Mint Copy Share Image
That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living. In a few minutes we’ll be worrying about names… — Audrey Niffenegger Children Copy Share Image
I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play… — Audrey Niffenegger Going to sleep Copy Share Image
She looks up at me, still rocking. “Henry . . . why did me decide to do this again?” “Supposedly when it’s… — Audrey Niffenegger Baby Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm dreaming you. Maybe you're dreaming me; maybe we only exist in each other's dreams and every morning when we wake… — Audrey Niffenegger Dream Copy Share Image
“This spirit, this feeling that things aren't right and, in fact, things are so wrong than the only thing we can do… — Audrey Niffenegger Religion Copy Share Image
“One may do many things in a long life. I also played a great deal of tennis and brought up three children.… — Audrey Niffenegger Adventure 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
“When I began writing The Night Bookmobile, it was a story about a woman's secret life as a reader. As I worked… — Audrey Niffenegger Books Copy Share Image
We are walking down the street holding hands. There is a playground at the end of the block, and I run to… — Audrey Niffenegger Block 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
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
“Clare snores, quiet animal snores that feel like bulldozers running through my head. I want my own bed, in my own apartment.… — Audrey Niffenegger Home country Copy Share Image
Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my ability to control my… — Audrey Niffenegger Ability 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
We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being… — Audrey Niffenegger Happiness Copy Share Image
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just… — Audrey Niffenegger Extremely happy Copy Share Image
Do you ever miss him? Every day. Every minute. Every minute, she says. Yes, it's that way, isn't it? — Audrey Niffenegger Every day Copy Share Image
You can still be cool when you’re dead. In fact, it’s much easier, because you aren’t getting old and fat and losing… — Audrey Niffenegger Being cool 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
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
The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or… — Audrey Niffenegger Bed Copy Share Image
“Here all of nature was captured, labeled, arranged according to a logic that seemed as timeless as if ordered by God, perhaps… — Audrey Niffenegger Creation Copy Share Image
“Sleep erases all differences: then and now; dead and living. I am past hunger, past vanity, past caring. This morning I caught… — Audrey Niffenegger Life 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 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
“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
“Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Through each… — Audrey Niffenegger Eternity 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
