Audrey Niffenegger Quotes

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

I’m curious about things that people aren’t supposed to see—so, for example, I liked going to the British Museum, but I would like it better if I could go into all the offices and storage rooms, I wan...

About Author

Audrey Niffenegger (born June 13, 1963) is an American writer, artist, and academic. Her debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, published in 2003, was a bestseller.

You're my phantom limb, Mouse. I keep looking for you. I forget. I feel stupid, Mouse. Haunt me, find me, come back from wherever you are. Be with me.

To lose one child, Mr. DeTamble, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose three looks like carelessness.

Naša je ljubav bila nit kroz labirint, mreža ispod hodača po žici, jedino stvarno u mom čudnom životu kojemu nikad nisam mogao vjerovati. Večeras mi se čini da moja ljubav prema tebi ima veću gustoću...

No sé cómo reaccionar, porque estoy enamorada de un hombre que está delante de mí y sin embargo él no guarda ningún recuerdo de mi persona. En lo que a él respecta, todo se ubica en el futuro. Me entr...

What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa.

[Who are the artists you admire, Surrealist or otherwise?]Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Charlotte Salomon, Goya, Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley is not so much about the impossible as he is about freaks and d...

When we were that young we invented the world, no one could tell us a thing.

The best love is the kind that weakens the soul, that makes us reach for more. That plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.

Very few people meet their soulmates at age six. So you gotta pass the time somehow. And Ingrid was very - patient. Overly patient. Willing to put up with odd behavior, in the hope that someday I woul...

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

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

Roy is my favorite security guy. He's a huge African-American gentleman who always has a beautiful smile on his face. He's the King of the Main Desk, and I'm always glad to arrive at work and bask in...

Dead is the most alone you can be.

It’s hard to be the one who stays.

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

How does it feel?I feels exactly like one of those dreams in which you suddenly realize that you have to take a test you haven't studied for and you aren't wearing any clothes. And you've left your wa...

I am so tired. Even the word sleep is a lure, a seduction.

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 d...