Audrey Niffenegger Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Audrey Niffenegger
Audrey Niffenegger Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I was thinking; it's very peaceful, here with you. It's nice to just lie here and know that the future is sort of taken care of." "Henry?
All of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.
I now have an erection that is probably tall enough to ride some of the scarier rides at Great America without a parent.
In the dim light of the computer screen he seemed otherworldly; Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage.
Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other
than just getting older.
than just getting older.
Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.
Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.
If you are far away from your lover and family, if you have lost someone, if you feel a bit displaced in your own life: these stories are for you.
He had never realized, while Elspeth was alive, the extent to which a thing had not completely happened until he told her about it.
What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.
One may do many things in a long life. I also played a great deal of tennis and brought up three children. There's time for all sorts of adventures.
There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.
To lose one child, Mr. DeTamble, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose three looks like carelessness.
A bad thing about dying is that I've started to feel as though I'm being erased. Another bad thing is that I won't get to find out what happens next.
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 your hair.
The best love is the kind that weakens the soul, that makes us reach for more. That plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.
After an hour or so has passed I too am gone and there is only a blanket and a book, coffee cups, and clothing, to show that we were there at all.
Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against.
I don't know what to say to this Clare who is old and young and different from other girls, who knows that different might be hard.
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'm at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me at all. (Time Traveler's Wife)
You're my phantom limb, Mouse. I keep looking for you. I forget. I feel stupid, Mouse. Haunt me, find me, come back from wherever you are. Be with me.
One of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.
I place my hands over her ears and tip her head back, and kiss her, and try to put my heart into hers, for safekeeping, in case I lose it again.
I am so accustomed to living on a metaphysical trapeze that I forget that other people tend to enjoy more solid ground
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,
It wasn't quite raining, but it wasn't exactly not raining either. She heard the driver squelching along the path behind her.
The pain has receded but what's left is the shell of pain, an empty space where there should be pain but instead there is the expectation of pain.
I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that.
It's funny how we like labels. If I ever have a bookstore, I'm not going to put any labels on the sections.
I've noticed that Henry needs an incredible amount of physical activity all the time in order to be happy. It's like hanging out with a greyhound.
We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.
... she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy
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 the apartment.
Look, I am living. On what? Neither the childhood nor future/ grows any smaller ... Superabundant being/ wells up in my heart.
There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.
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 the one who stays behind.
He was not in the house. He did not come back that night. Days went by, and at last she understood that he would not return at all.
Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson
I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I want to tell a story.