He had never realized, while Elspeth was alive, the extent to which a thing had not completely happened until he told her about it.
Audrey NiffeneggerIn the dim light of the computer screen he seemed otherworldly; Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage.
Audrey NiffeneggerListen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.
Audrey NiffeneggerHe thanked her and left the house in the mood of a shipwrecked man who has allowed the rescue ship to pass him by.
Audrey NiffeneggerI think play must have been invented so we wouldn't go mad thinking about certain things.
Audrey NiffeneggerWhen 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 NiffeneggerTag: romance time-travel
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
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
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 NiffeneggerTag: art
Mama said, "Dreams are different to real life but important too.
Audrey NiffeneggerTag: dreams
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