Audrey Niffenegger Quotes - Page 2

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• 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 wait for the children to fly in the window.

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  Mom, Mother, Children

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part.

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  You Make Me Happy, Make Me Happy, Difficult

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• He thanked her and left the house in the mood of a shipwrecked man who has allowed the rescue ship to pass him by.

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  Men, House, Ships

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble

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  Hate, I Hate

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• 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 in a world of substances.

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  Art, Ideas, Substance

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out.

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  Mom, Mother, Memories

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• In the dim light of the computer screen he seemed otherworldly; Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage.

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  Beautiful, Light, Damage

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 for the children.

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  Children, Names, Worry

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• But you know: you know that if I could have stayed, if I could have gone on, that I would have clutched every second: whatever it was, this death, you know that it came and took me, like a child carried away by goblins.

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  Children, Gone, Goblin

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried.

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  Mets, Persons, Ifs

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.

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  Jobs, Fall, Description

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 up we forget all about each other.

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  Dream, Morning, Wake Up

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• I sometimes end up in dangerous situations, and I come back to you broken and messed up, and you worry about me when I'm gone. It's like marrying a policeman.

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  Dangerous Situations, Broken, Worry

  Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.307, Zola Books

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• absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird

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  Dark, Bird, Nerves

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

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• He is coming, and I am here.

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• Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.

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  Facts, Chaos

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• He made the boxes because he was lonely. He didn't have anyone to love, and he made the boxes so he could love them, and so people would know that he existed, and because birds are free and the boxes are hiding places for the birds so they will feel safe, and he wanted to be free and be safe. The boxes are for him so he can be a bird.

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  Lonely, People, Bird

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.381, Simon and Schuster

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• I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.

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  Dark, Hell, Bent

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.

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  Girl, Reading, Home

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• We are walking down the street holding hands. There is a playground at the end of the block, and I run to the swings and I climb on and Henry takes the one next to me facing the opposite direction. And we swing higher and higher passing each other, sometimes in synch and sometimes streaming past each other so fast that it seems we are going to collide. And 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 and nothing can mar our perfection or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

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  Running, Block, Past

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• When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.

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  Artist, Surprise

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Order, Needs, Incredibles

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.

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  Hallucinations, Wilderness, Melancholy

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• 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. And when I was young I didn't understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.

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  Dark, Bird, Nerves

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

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• He had never realized, while Elspeth was alive, the extent to which a thing had not completely happened until he told her about it.

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  Alive, Happened

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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