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It's funny how we like labels. If I ever have a bookstore, I'm not going to put any labels on the sections.
Audrey Niffenegger
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Audrey Niffenegger
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 13
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She looks up at me, still rocking. “Henry . . . why did me decide to do this again?” “Supposedly when it’s over they hand you a baby and let you keep it.” “Oh yeah.” --Wednesday, September 5, 2001
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That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.
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I breathe slowly and deeply. I make my eyes still under eyelids, I make my mind still, and soon, Sleep, seeing a perfect reproduction of himself, comes to be united with his facsimile.
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I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.
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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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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.
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You can still be cool when you’re dead. In fact, it’s much easier, because you aren’t getting old and fat and losing your hair.
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…she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy
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absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird
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But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part.
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I told Ing once that she dances like a German and she didn't like it, but it's true: she dances seriously, like lives are hanging in the balance, like precision dancing can save the starving children of India.
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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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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.
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Chaos is more freedom in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.
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We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.
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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. Clare sighs, turns her head, and is quiet. Hi, honey. I'm home. I'm home.
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I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.
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I look at him, look at the book, remember, this book, this moment, the first book I ever loved
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Time passes and the pain begins to roll in and out as though it’s a woman standing at an ironing board, passing the iron back and forth, back and forth across a white tablecloth.
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It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.
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