228 Quotes by Audrey Niffenegger

I want to be haunted... Haunt me... Come and put your arms around me... Or, if you can’t do that, just look at me. That’s all I need. Where are you? Not here. But I can’t feel you gone either... I keep looking for you. I forget. I feel stupid... Haunt me, find me, come back from wherever you are. Be with me. I’m afraid.

The pain has receded but what’s left is the shell of pain, an empty space where there should be pain but instead there is the expectation of pain.

Do you ever miss him? Every day. Every minute. Every minute, she says. Yes, it’s that way, isn’t it?

What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.

I guess no matter what your family is like, you’re not surprised.

I 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.

If you are far away from your lover and family, if you have lost someone, if you feel a bit displaced in your own life: these stories are for you.

I feel that I an everything to her.

She’s going to break my heart and I’m going to let her.