Quotes by Audrey Niffenegger

About Audrey Niffenegger:

Audrey Niffenegger is an American writer, artist and academic.
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I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

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I want my own bed, in my own apartment. Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home.

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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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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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But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.

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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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I love you always. Time is nothing.

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

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

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Why is love intensified by absence?

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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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Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

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

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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...

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The Garden Under Snow " Now the garden is under snow a blank page our footprints write on clare who was never mine but always belonged to herself Sleeping Beauty a crystalline blanket this is her spring this is her sleeping/awakening she is waiting e...

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Dream are different than real life but important too.

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The only thing we can do is to say ‘Fuck it’ over and over again, really loud, until someone stops us.

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When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a thief, a vagrant, an animal who runs and hides. I startle old women and amaze children. I am a trick, an illusion of the highest order, so incredible ...

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

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Author Bio

  • NameAudrey Niffenegger
  • DescriptionAmerican writer, artist and academic
  • BornJune 13, 1963
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPoet; Author; Novelist