Audrey Niffenegger Quotes

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• I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.
• There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.
• Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my ability to control my movement through space…
• Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.
• The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance…
• We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here,…
• I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble
• CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.
• How does it feel? I feels exactly like one of those dreams in which you suddenly realize that you have to take a test you…
• But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part.
• Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship.…
• It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.
• It comes out so quietly that I have to ask her to repeat it: “It’s just that I thought maybe you were married to me.
• I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty…
• I still feel like a castaway, th elast of a once numerous species. It was as though Robinson Crusoe discovered the telltale footprint on the…
• Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and…
• Why is love intensified by absence?
• Outside it's a perfect spring night. We stand on the sidewalk in front of our apartment building, and Henry takes my hand, and I look…
• It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.
• I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days…

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