Audrey Niffenegger Quotes

Quotes about:

• 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?

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Life, Thinking, Inspire

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

  46 Copy quote

• 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.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Love, Pregnancy, Writing

  15 Copy quote

• I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Sleep, Tired, Winter

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

  15 Copy quote

• Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Knowing, Sometimes, Realizing

  14 Copy quote

• Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Sleep, Opiates, Lovers

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

  12 Copy quote

• Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Moving, Natural Elements, World

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

  9 Copy quote

• Clare, I want to tell you, again, I love you. 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. Tonight I feel that my love for you has more density in this world than I do, myself: as though it could linger on after me and surround you, keep you, hold you.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Real, Love You, Labyrinth

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

  6 Copy quote

• There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Travel, Lost Ones, World

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

  9 Copy quote

• It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Love, Time, Left Behind

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

  12 Copy quote

• we both smile and we are conspirators.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Conspirators

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

  6 Copy quote

• I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Love, Heartbreak, Leaving

  7 Copy quote

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

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Alive, Happened

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

  4 Copy quote

• I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.321, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

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

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Facts, Chaos

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

  2 Copy quote

• He is coming, and I am here.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  2 Copy quote

• I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Beautiful, Morning, Book

  Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.10, Zola Books

  2 Copy quote

• 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.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Lonely, People, Bird

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

  0 Copy quote

• …she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Way, Sun, Brilliant

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

  2 Copy quote

• 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.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Dark, Bird, Nerves

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

  7 Copy quote

• The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least expect it.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Pain, Sulking, Bed

  19 Copy quote

• 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.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Sadness, Perfect, Laughing

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

  3 Copy quote

• The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we can’t know all the variables; and a Christian universe in which God made everything and it’s all here for a purpose but we have free will anyway.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Christian, Block, Past

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Mean, Want, Facts

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

  2 Copy quote

• I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Love, Depression, Running

  Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.270, Zola Books

  2 Copy quote

• Why is love intensified by absence?

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Life, Absence

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

  5 Copy quote

Page 1 of 6

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin