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

Audrey Niffenegger

Stichwörter: favorites



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What are you doing?"
Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Audrey Niffenegger

Stichwörter: gomez henry



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There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.

Audrey Niffenegger


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Sometimes a thing is—too much—and it has to be isolated and put away." Martin shrugged. "So what's in the boxes is—emotion. In the form of objects."-Her Fearful Symmetry

Audrey Niffenegger


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I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson.

Audrey Niffenegger


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You didn’t answer my question. I asked you about being in love. You said what it was like when your wife went away.”
Martin sat down again. How young she is. When we were that young we invented the world, no one could tell us a thing. Julia stood with her hands clenched, as though she wanted to pound an answer out of him. “Being in love is…anxious,” he said. “Wanting to please, worrying that she will see me as I really am. But wanting to be known. That is…you’re naked, moaning in the dark, no dignity at all…I wanted her to see me and to love me even though she knew everything I am, and I knew her. Now she’s gone, and my knowledge is incomplete. So all day I imagine what she is doing, what she says and who she talks to, how she looks. I try to supply the missing hours, and it gets harder as they pile up, all the time she’s been gone. I have to imagine. I don’t know, really. I don’t know any more.

Audrey Niffenegger

Stichwörter: love



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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.

Audrey Niffenegger

Stichwörter: death



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

Audrey Niffenegger

Stichwörter: endearing-qualities



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It answers to the name of Henry, but you can call it Library Boy.

Audrey Niffenegger

Stichwörter: the-time-traveler-s-wife



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I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit sleep firmly, willing it, wielding it, pushing away dreams, refusing, refusing. Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. [...] It is afternoon, it is night, it is morning. Everything is reduced to this bed, this endless slumber that makes the days into one day, makes time stop, stretches and compacts time until it is meaningless.

Audrey Niffenegger

Stichwörter: sleep escapism



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