Audrey Niffenegger Quotes

A collection of quotes by Audrey Niffenegger.

Audrey Niffenegger is an American writer and visual artist. She was born on June 13, 1963, in South Haven, Michigan. Niffenegger is best known for her debut novel, "The Time Traveler's Wife," which was published in 2003 and became a critically acclaimed international bestseller. She has also written other novels, including "Her Fearful Symmetry" and "The Chinchilla Girl in Exile." In addition to her writing, Niffenegger is a professor in the Interdisciplinary Book Arts MFA Program at the Columbia College Chicago. She continues to create artwork and explore various creative mediums.

He said something interesting: he said that he thinks there

He said something interesting: he said that he thinks there is only free will when you are in time, in the present. He says in the past we can only do what we did, and we can only be there if we were there.

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I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory

I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out.

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Happiness Love Memory Loss Mother Childhood Memory

Our love has been the thread through thelabyrinth, the net u

Our love has been the thread through thelabyrinth, 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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Life Love Trust Emotions

But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged

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

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Life Absence Present Dark Bird

Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I

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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There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to pan

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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Life Travel Inspirational

That's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all m

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

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To world enough and time.

To world enough and time.

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Time Love World Dream