My reflection in the mirror shows me pink and puffy. I thought pregnant women were to supposed to glow. I am not glowing.
Audrey NiffeneggerI place my hands over her ears and tip her head back, and kiss her, and try to put my heart into hers, for safekeeping, in case I lose it again.
Audrey NiffeneggerThe engagement ring is an emerald, and the dim light from the window is refracted green and white in it. The rings are silver, and they need cleaning. They need wearing, and I know just the girl to wear them.
Audrey NiffeneggerThere's always world enough and time.
Audrey NiffeneggerLove the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.
Audrey NiffeneggerRoy 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 his magnificent good cheer.
Audrey NiffeneggerTags: stereotypes
You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried.
Audrey NiffeneggerTags: strangeness odd-people
we both smile and we are conspirators.
Audrey NiffeneggerVery 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 would shape up and marry her martyred ass. And when somebody is that patient, you have to feel grateful, and then you want to hurt them. Does that make any sense?
Audrey NiffeneggerI think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room
Audrey NiffeneggerTags: happiness love loss memory mother childhood-memory
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