Audrey Niffenegger Quotes - Page 5

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• I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room

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  Summer, Mother, Thinking

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• We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.

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  Insane, Unhappy, Reason

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

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• I told Ing once that she dances like a German and she didn't like it, but it's true: she dances seriously, like lives are hanging in the balance, like precision dancing can save the starving children of India.

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  Children, Dancing, Balance

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• Mama said, "Dreams are different to real life but important too."

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  Dream, Real, Important

  "The Time Traveler’s Wife". Book by Audrey Niffenegger, 2013.

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• I breathe slowly and deeply. I make my eyes still under eyelids, I make my mind still, and soon, Sleep, seeing a perfect reproduction of himself, comes to be united with his facsimile.

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  Sleep, Eye, Perfect

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.513, Simon and Schuster

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• Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a frame filled with cotton. I would hold it close to my face, so close I couldn't see anything but that blue. It would fill me with a feeling, a feeling I later tried to duplicate with alcohol and finally found again with Clare, a feeling of unity, oblivion, mindlessness in the best sense of the word.

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  Mom, Butterfly, Blue

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Time passes and the pain begins to roll in and out as though it’s a woman standing at an ironing board, passing the iron back and forth, back and forth across a white tablecloth.

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  Pain, Ironing Board, White

  Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.290, Zola Books

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• Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secretively late at night. Teenage years reading -trying to read- books I'd heard were important, Naked Lunch, and The Fountainhead, Ulysses and Women in Love... It was as though I had dreamt the perfect lover, who vanished as I woke, leaving me pining and surly.

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  Teenage, Book, Reading

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• She looks up at me, still rocking. “Henry . . . why did me decide to do this again?” “Supposedly when it’s over they hand you a baby and let you keep it.” “Oh yeah.” --Wednesday, September 5, 2001

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  Baby, Hands, Looks

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• I think play must have been invented so we wouldn't go mad thinking about certain things.

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  Thinking, Play, Mad

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.355, Simon and Schuster

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• And Clare, always Clare.

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  "The Time Traveler's Wife". Book by Audrey Niffenegger, 2003.

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• There's always world enough and time.

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  World, Enough

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• It was silly, wasn't it? But the singing made it not silly.

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  Silly, Singing, Made

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.434, Simon and Schuster

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• Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.

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  Memories, Book, Hours

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• 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 if not time, and the obedience, however temporary, of my body to my will. As I run I displace air, and things come and go around me, and the path moves like a filmstrip beneath my feet.

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  Running, Moving, Air

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.

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  Smell, Library, Carpet

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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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. Circe, Nimbue, Artemis, Athena, all the old sorceresses: they must have known the feeling as they transformed mere men into fabulous creatures, stole the secrets of the magicians, disposed armies: ah, look, there it is, the new thing. Call it a swine, a war, a laurel tree. Call it art.

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  Art, War, Army

  "The Time Traveler's Wife". Book by Audrey Niffenegger, 2003.

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• My family isn't posh; they're musicians.

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  Musician, My Family, Posh

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• 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. Now I wait for Henry. He vanishes unwillingly, without warning. I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Through each moment I can see infinite moments lined up, waiting. Why has he gone where I cannot follow?

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  Men, Glasses, Long Ago

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Married, Repeats, Asks

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Night, House, Lasts

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.392, Simon and Schuster

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• I look at him, look at the book, remember, this book, this moment, the first book I ever loved

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  Book, Looks, Firsts

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't want to boss anyone and I don't want to be bossed.

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  Boss, Want

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust.

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  Real, Labyrinth, Wire

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

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• 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 for wanting to avoid the sadness; dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say "I'm sorry" until it is as meaningless air.

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  Sorry, Sadness, Air

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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