228 Quotes by Audrey Niffenegger

I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: hours spent in airless classrooms, days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secretively late at night. Teenage years reading – trying to read- books I’d heard were important, Naked Lunch and The Fountainhead, Ulysses and Women in Love.” -The Night Bookmobile.

Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older.

I’m suicidal just thinking about it.

Clare seems so pleased with the idea of me as a pirate that she forgets that I am Stranger Danger.

Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home. Clare sighs, turns her head, and is quiet. Hi, honey. I’m home. I’m home.

When we met I was wrecked, blasted, and damned, and I am slowly pulling myself together because I can see that you are a human being and I would like to be one, too. And I have been trying to do it without you noticing, because I haven’t figured out that all pretense is useless between us.

In the dim light of the computer screen he seemed otherworldly; Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage.

Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.