Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Audrey Niffenegger
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 13
Artist
Author
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
University Teacher
Visual Artist
Writer
South Haven
Michigan
Words
Write
Syllable
Left
Syllables
Writing
Pregnancy
Love
Fill
Page
Pages
Loved
More quotes by Audrey Niffenegger
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
I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say I'm sorry until it is as meaningless air.
Audrey Niffenegger
What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa.
Audrey Niffenegger
I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.
Audrey Niffenegger
What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.
Audrey Niffenegger
When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days.
Audrey Niffenegger
I don't want to boss anyone and I don't want to be bossed.
Audrey Niffenegger
absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird
Audrey Niffenegger
Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.
Audrey Niffenegger
My family isn't posh they're musicians.
Audrey Niffenegger
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.
Audrey Niffenegger
In the dim light of the computer screen he seemed otherworldly Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage.
Audrey Niffenegger
When somebody is that patient, you have to feel grateful, and then you want to hurt them. Does that make any sense?
Audrey Niffenegger
Mama said, Dreams are different to real life but important too.
Audrey Niffenegger
I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.
Audrey Niffenegger
He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh - it became an entry in a dictionary of loneliness.
Audrey Niffenegger
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
When we met I was wrecked, blasted, and damned, and I am slowly pulling myself together because I can see that you are a human being and I would like to be one, too.
Audrey Niffenegger
I've noticed that Henry needs an incredible amount of physical activity all the time in order to be happy. It's like hanging out with a greyhound.
Audrey Niffenegger
…she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy
Audrey Niffenegger
