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 NiffeneggerHe saw things he had no words for.
Audrey NiffeneggerTime is nothing.
Audrey NiffeneggerThe 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. The magic I can make is small magic now, deferred magic. Every day i work, but nothing ever materializes. I feel like Penelope, weaving and unweaving.
Audrey NiffeneggerMy apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books.
Audrey NiffeneggerDream are different than real life but important too.
Audrey NiffeneggerMots clés reality dreams real-life
And so the twins had remained virgins. Julia and Valentina watched all of their high school and college friends disappear one by one into the adult world of sex, until they were the only people they knew who lingered in the world of the uninitiated. "What was it like?" they asked each friend. The answers were vague. Sex was a private joke: you had to be there.
Audrey NiffeneggerMots clés virginity sex jokes twins private-jokes
Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by absence?
Audrey NiffeneggerMots clés love absence audrey-niffenegger the-time-traveler-s-wife
We were royally miserable together.
Audrey NiffeneggerMots clés the-time-traveler-s-wife
When somebody is that patient, you have to feel grateful, and then you want to hurt them. Does that make any sense?
Audrey NiffeneggerMots clés the-time-traveler-s-wife
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