Audrey Niffenegger Quotes

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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?

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Life, Thinking, Inspire

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

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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?

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Sleep, Tired, Winter

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

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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.

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Love, Pregnancy, Writing

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

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Moving, Natural Elements, World

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

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

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Knowing, Sometimes, Realizing

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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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Sadness, Perfect, Laughing

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

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

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Love, Heartbreak, Leaving

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

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Love, Time, Left Behind

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

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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.

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Travel, Lost Ones, World

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

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

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Sleep, Opiates, Lovers

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

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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.

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Real, Love You, Labyrinth

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

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that's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws

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Love You, Inability, Flaws

Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Mean, Want, Facts

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

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Why is love intensified by absence?

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Life, Absence

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

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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.

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Pain, Sulking, Bed

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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.

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Sorry, Mean, Littles

Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Christian, Block, Past

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we both smile and we are conspirators.

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Conspirators

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

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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.

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Love, Depression, Running

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

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Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is waiting for me. Do you know about phantom-limb syndrome?" Julia nodded. "There's pain where she ought to be. It's feeding the other pain, the thing that makes me wash and count and all that. So her absence is stopping me from going to find her. Do you see?

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Pain, Self, Waiting

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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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He is coming, and I am here.

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...and I suddenly feel that Henry is there, incredible need for Henry to be there and to put his hand on me even while it seems to me that Henry is the rain and I am alone and wanting him - Clare

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Rain, Hands, Needs

Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.57, Zola Books

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It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.

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Love, Time, Tired

Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.517, Simon and Schuster

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I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit sleep firmly, willing it, wielding it, pushing away dreams, refusing, refusing. Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. [...] It is afternoon, it is night, it is morning. Everything is reduced to this bed, this endless slumber that makes the days into one day, makes time stop, stretches and compacts time until it is meaningless.

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Dream, Morning, Rap

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

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