He had never realized, while Elspeth was alive, the extent to which a thing had not completely happened until he told her about it.

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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


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Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

Audrey Niffenegger


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He thanked her and left the house in the mood of a shipwrecked man who has allowed the rescue ship to pass him by.

Audrey Niffenegger


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I think play must have been invented so we wouldn't go mad thinking about certain things.

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When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a thief, a vagrant, an animal who runs and hides. I startle old women and amaze children. I am a trick, an illusion of the highest order, so incredible that I am actually true.

Audrey Niffenegger

Mots clés romance time-travel



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Yes; the poem goes something like this: 'Bamboo without mind, yet sends thoughts soaring among clouds. Standing on the lone mountain, quiet, dignified, it typifies the will of a gentleman. --Painted and written with light heart, Wu Chen.'"
--Sunday, May 31, 1992

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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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The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances. Circe, Nimbue, Artemis, Athena, all the old sorceresses: they must have known the feeling as they transformed mere men into fabulous creatures, stole the secrets of the magicians, disposed armies: ah, look, there it is, the new thing. Call it a swine, a war, a laurel tree. Call it art.

Audrey Niffenegger

Mots clés art



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Mama said, "Dreams are different to real life but important too.

Audrey Niffenegger

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